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

[Tom Bruno <crweb@vwords.com>]

I have 2 firegl's and one radeon 8900, a nvidia 4200 mobile, and a
geforce 5800.  i tell you now, there is no match to nvidia's drivers
under linux.

  
  Neverwinter Night:
  http://nwn.bioware.com   check download section for linux client.


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:57, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> 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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