What's a good video card?

[Chadley Wilson]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 15:59, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
Whats a good video card?


Well on the linux platform I presume,

for 3D:

In my experience none of the 3D cards are any good on xorg. I am running FC3 
and I have 6 P4s ranging from 2.4 ht to 3.2 prescot
I also have two laptops both with radeon 9600 onboard that do support 3D 
despite ATi Support trying to convince me otherwise.

I can load and configure the nvidia driver for the PCs running a mix of 
nvidias cards. The 3D is really pathetic and hacks alot.
My mobility radeon is a no go in xorg.

I have switched to xfree and the performance is perfect UT2004 intense scenes 
are smooth on ATI and Nvidia.

Xorg is well known for its inability to be configured succesfully by ametures 
like me.  (just google for stuff on configuring it and see how many people 
struggle and get no solutions)


If your are looking for 3D then switch to XFree which also works better with 
cedega.

I am running UT2004, Q3 arena , N4Speed underground, Start craft, Black and 
White, Doom3, Half Life with addons, and a couple more.
My younger sister is running the Sims 2 with addons as well and a couple kiddy 
games.

If you don't want games and don't need 3D then just about any card will do. If 
you need a driver and can't compile or install one then use the vesa or 
vesafb driver.


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