Re: [Plib-users] Graphic driver corruption in PUI Menus ?

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Richard Andrews wrote:

>>p.s. thanks for helping me make up my mind between nvidia and ati ;)
> 
> I've heard people complaining about NVidia cards enough to make me think twice 
> about leaping into bed with NVidia.

Where I work, we stress graphics cards and their drivers pretty severely - and
there is no shadow of a doubt that nVidia's drivers are head-and-shoulders better
than ATI's.  Not without *any* problems - just generally much better.

ATI's hardware is sometimes faster than nVidia - sometimes slower - it depends in
minute detail on what exactly you are doing.

> Had I known earlier I may well have gone 
> for an NVidia card (the linux favourite). But, I know the ATI now and on the 
> whole have been quite happy with it. One day I might lash out and buy an 
> GeForce of whatever but not yet. Besides ATI is a brain expanding 
> challenge ;-)

This problem you are seeing looks similar to something we saw *years* ago
with the Mesa drivers.  The texture is somehow being stored incorrectly.

Look closely inside the button in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
It's supposed to say "Start Game" - with each letter being a separate
polygon.

You can actually see that the letters 't' and 'a' are coming up with
the same pattern in the two places that each letter is drawn.

Could you run the PLIB FNT library test program and get us a snapshot
of that?

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