I will be playing half-life, ages of empires, and some other stuff.
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From: Dacia and AzureRose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 2:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Video Card
which games. that is a big issue.
If you only play quake3, evolva and other new games
that can actually use hardware T&L then you'll be
making a pretty good decision by going with a geforce
based card.
On the other hand if you play flight sims, glide games
or older games you might look at a voodoo3,4 or 5.
Especially if you dual boot with wandows to play those
older games.
The Anti-aliasing that the voodoo4 and 5 series can do
is a BIG deal on games from about last december and
older. No jaggies, no pixel popping, no crawlies, no
slowdowns and that is in half-life! I understand that
flight sims, car racing games and sports games really
benefit even more. Freespace2 looks like a movie on
my system. It is totally amazing. I've spent the
last few nights hanging out with my brother drinking
beer and watching himplay that game on his 19in
monitor.
So, I guess what I'm saying is "What games do you
play?"
Dacia
--- "Kelly, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am going to use it primarily for gaming. And we'll
> see what else I can get
> my hands into...
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:19 PM
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> Subject: RE: [newbie] Video Card
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> I only have one off topic suggestion ...... have fun
> =o) theres a ton of
> cool things out there to try or implement/refine and
> perfect ... try em all
> ..... when you get curious or daring enough, play
> with some source code (C
> C++ Perl Python) whatever .. even if you dont know
> how to code, or leave
> everything the way it is .... the cool thing is
> Linux is the ultimate
> playground for anyone who wants to actually "use" a
> computer rather than
> have an operating system "guide" the user. The
> learning curve for the
> operating system *core* looks more like a vertical
> wall than a curve ...
> thing is there are a LOT of hands sticking out
> willing to help if you want
> them to. If you're careful about steps you take
> (recovery disks, backups
> etc) and you ask for help ... .the climb is a rush.
>
> Ok enough .... on topic advice for video cards ....
> I believe another
> poster mentioned the best advice. Choose something
> that suits what you
> want to use it for and what resources you already
> have (Monitor
> limitations, is this for gaming and playing with
> OpenGL stuff, do you just
> need X running etc) I personally am a fan of Loki
> and support their
> porting efforts by purchasing their games ported to
> Linux so I like hitting
> high frame rates with full effects on and GeForce
> and a nice 17" .24
> monitor do this for me. It al ldepends on what you
> want =o)
>
> Lonny
>
>
>
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