I had an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, and I thanked my lucky stars every day that I didn't have to use ATI's binary drivers (9000 Pro is the latest supported by X's "radeon" driver, IIRC). If they supported 32 bit (or even faked it as an alias to 24 bit), I'd be happier. But no, every game that I had seemed to want to init in either 16 or 32, and not 24. So every game I had would crash (the only one that wouldn't was Counter Strike).
My nVidia GeForce FX 5200 256MB plays all my games perfectly. SimCity 4, CS, HL, 1942, DC, DC Final, and so on. Tuxracer runs fine, too. But I'm mainly concerned with Windows-based FPSes, since that's what I play the most. I don't know if ATI's drivers have started to suck less, but they did a month and a half ago. I personally recommend staying far, far away from ATI. (But my ATI card ruled in Windows -- again, YMMV) On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:33:56 +0000, Joel Merrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 09:52 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > I had an older card and the later nVidia drivers > > Not got a problem with my 5600 (about a year and half old now), fast > enough for Tuxracer and that.. not lightning fast for Doom III though :S > > Any card you can buy today should be o.k. - y.m.m.v. ;) > > -- > Joel Merrick > > email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mobile: 07929 208 567 > ServiceStyle Ltd. - Manchester's Technology Experts > https://www.servicestyle.com > > GPG Public Key - https://www.servicestyle.com/joel_servicestyle.asc > > > -- "Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems." -- Linus Torvalds -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
