On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:17 am, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 06:30, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > N Smethurst wrote:
> > > too. However, I guess this would be politically incorrect so it will
> > > never happen, despite the fact that the users want drivers that work.
> >
> > So you should look elsewhere but nvidia (In fact I'm so pissed off at
> > the constant crashes with nvidia binary driver that I'll stay far away
> > from nvidia products, pity that it seems that ATI is following the same
> > trend).
> > BTW: anyone has a suggestion for a good (and possibly cheap) graphic
> > card, that run out of the box with open source (ie. peer reviewed)
> > drivers and has enough horsepower to play tuxracer?
>
> The Voodoo3 may be old, but it has great Linux support (well, as good as
> any 3d card, which is really to say crappy, but at least the support is
> in XF86 & the kernel instead of a binary mystery package) still has
> competitive frame rates, and is available for about $20 off of ebay.
>
> Voodoo3s play all GL and SDL games very nicely, Quake and all its
> variants are fine, Descent3 is great. However, some game authors will
> write their games specifically for a certain video card. They might say
> that it's to "utilize many super-nifty whiz-bang features of the card
> that aren't exposed through OpenGL", I might say it's to repay
> investments and prototype boards from the video card manufacturer, but
> the end result is that 3dfx doesn't apply in that game of kickback any
> more. So, if you want to run Unreal Tournament on Linux, you must
> purchase an NVidia card and use whatever drivers it requires.
It can't play UT 2003
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