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

["Casey Boone" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

the general rule of thumb is if you want decent open source support go ati, 
while if closed source is your thing go nvidia.  ati's linux drivers are 
rather slow compared to nvidia's.

that being said i almost exclusively buy ati cards (radeon vivo, 8500dv, and 
now a 9600pro).  i never use anything other than 2d under linux anyway and 
just about every video card will pull that off decently nowdays under xfree.

Casey


>From: 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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