Comments on: Have You Hugged Your Driver Writer Lately? https:/2009/12/have-you-hugged-your-driver-writer-lately/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:01:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: alpilotx https:/2009/12/have-you-hugged-your-driver-writer-lately/#comment-531 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:24:30 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=144#comment-531 And, sometimes they are also cooperative if you have problems. I had this experience once, when there was some nasty driver issue with NVidia on Linux, which in rare occasions during a flight in X-Plane brought the computer down (X completely froze up with ugly NV log messages). Well, key to getting fixed that was to communicate with NVidia in the right tone and give them as much information as possible (which is the really hard part for many users) …

]]> By: Benjamin Supnik https:/2009/12/have-you-hugged-your-driver-writer-lately/#comment-532 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:08:17 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=144#comment-532 I do _sometimes_ get to moan face to face…like many company-to-company relationships, LR's communications with Apple, AMD, etc. are riddled with NDAs.

]]> By: Anonymous https:/2009/12/have-you-hugged-your-driver-writer-lately/#comment-533 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:51:46 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=144#comment-533 Interesting. Do you ever get to moan at driver writers or are they as faceless to you as to us? I understand that driver writers have a short time to get the first driver right. How about v2+ drivers?

As I understand X-plane runs faster on a PC using the same GPU as my Mac (GeForce 8800 GT) and the difference is in the drivers, I'd love to have a moan at the (presumably) Apple techs who can't get it running somewhere near as fast as (presumably) the NVIDIA guys can get the PC drivers humming along. OR..have I got it completely wrong? I'm a User not a Tech.

XG

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