On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:46:53AM -0800, Duane Clark wrote: > Chris G wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:11:32AM -0300, Heitor Moraes wrote: >>> Without the proprietary driver, your computer will have a poor >>> software based 3D. >>> >> But what applications *use* 3D? Do I actually run anything that will >> take advantage of 3D? > > If you don't use games, the main application that I know of that might > interest you would be google earth. If you have not tried it before, it is > very cool. You need the nvidia driver to get good performance on it. > I have occasionally looked at Google earth, so that's one possible reason for installing the nvidia drivers. Thanks. -- Chris Green