Re: Best 3D card under (Gentoo) Linux?

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:58:02PM -0500, Tom Bruno wrote:
> Honestly the best cards are Nvidia based cards.
> 
>   Ati drivers to put it mildly are horrible.  Open source yes, but ati
> doesn't seem to give a crap about the drivers actually working.  After
> many hours of headache, you'll end up buying a nvidia anyway, just so
> you can have Gl support.

Apparently you've never actually tried a Radeon...  I use my 8500LE to
play RTCW/ET on a semi-regular basis using stock Red Hat/Fedora
drivers.  Kara has my old Radeon VE (7000).  Her parents have a PCI
Radeon 7000 to play tuxracer.  And plus we sell Linux boxes with
various Radeons on a regular basis.

And if non-opensource drivers don't bother you, ATI has drivers that
support all their higher-end cards.

>    Another of the major complaints is,  the ATI drivers don't even
> support a few of the major ATI proprietary GL functions that the card is
> capable of.  This causes problems for games like Neverwinter Nights that
> rely on the capabilities of the card to do things.

There's a Linux version of Neverwinter Nights?

Besides, the ATI proprietary stuff does work with the ATI
closed-source drivers, as I understand it, so that's not even an
argument.

Steve
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