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Just a couple of crazy ideas I have about graphics cards.
I would like to see a program or a driver which would include something like cpuidle or rain for my voodoo3. The
heat it produces is quite considerable, and most of the time the card is doing nothing. It wouldn't hurt having a cooler system and it wouldn't hurt the environment eiher, energy saving is a green thought after all.
Second idea. Graphics cards harbor more and more memory.
When you work in 2d-mode, there's up to 63 megabytes or even more of memory just sitting there unused. Would it take a new set of drivers for the motherboard, graphics card or something in the operating system to share the memory on the graphics card with other applications than 3d-games? I wouldn't mind using the 14 MB of unused memory on my voodoo3 rather than virtual disk memory in Windows.
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I would like to see a program or a driver which would include something like cpuidle or rain for my voodoo3. The
heat it produces is quite considerable, and most of the time the card is doing nothing. It wouldn't hurt having a cooler system and it wouldn't hurt the environment eiher, energy saving is a green thought after all.
Second idea. Graphics cards harbor more and more memory.
When you work in 2d-mode, there's up to 63 megabytes or even more of memory just sitting there unused. Would it take a new set of drivers for the motherboard, graphics card or something in the operating system to share the memory on the graphics card with other applications than 3d-games? I wouldn't mind using the 14 MB of unused memory on my voodoo3 rather than virtual disk memory in Windows.
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