First go 'round with UT2003 was an abysmal failure. My system is currently locked up, with some horrendous attempt at rendering a scene stuck on screen. Only the second time I've seen a Linux system hard-lock (can't get to a vty, can't ssh in, nada).
Oh, no - sounds like ATI is still not an option then.
I originally used voodoo3s since about 1999, and games like q3a were buttery smooth on linux - performance tests on the net showed that idsoftware's 3D engine tend to have the equivalent performance on win32 and linux -
After 3dfx went under I started buying nvidia cards - I found that RtCW worked even better with the nvidia than it did with the voodoo - again, it was silky smooth in linux -
I played unreal from time to time but never was able to get into it since the feel of it was just kind of klunky - it was nowhere near as smooth and responsive as q3a/rtcw - which I attributed to it being a not very skillful port of a pc-based program.
As far as ATI, I tried a radeon vl to get away from having to mess with new driver installs every time I upgraded the kernel - the radeon with the dri drivers worked fairly well in q3a and the 3D screensavers worked ok -but the box would immediately lock up hard any time I tried to launch RtCW - this is of course totally unacceptable, so I yanked the ATI and sold it to a win doze user - I popped in an nvidia and the box has been rock solid ever since.
When I heard about the recent availability of 3D support for ATI cards, I hoped the drivers had matured, but from your account, it sounds as though the open source ATI drivers are unusable.
There are things other than games that use 3D! And nVidia's drivers have better 2D also.
That's bizarre, perhaps there is some flaw in the configuration - I have always found the "nv" driver to have very fast 2D performance. I give up some of that to get the 3D support from the nvidia driver, always - I've noticed that on TNT and GeForce 2 cards of various types. without fail.
So, unless the ATI drivers work like magic (we are awaiting your report) it sounds like nvidia is still the only game in town, quite literally, for 3D linux gaming.
Joe
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