Re: [SLUG] video card

From: Jeff Skube (cr1ms0ngh0st@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 17:20:14 EDT


Why use wine for Unreal Tournament? Loki supports UT for linux and you
need a windows CD to install it because they dont make a box set of it
for linux. So go there site download the install and there ya go you
got UT for linux and its all native no emulation.

Jeff

On 17 Jul 2001 13:06:39 -0400, Travis Walls wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 400. Yes that is right, there are three
> different kinds of cards in the MX series. I think, not positive, the
> MX 200 is worst, the MX is ok, and the MX 400 is best. Well, I got the
> MX 400 with 64 MB of RAM and TV-Out for under $100. It works like a
> charm under Red Hat Linux 7.1. Note that I am also using a KT133 chipset
> that is rumored to be unstable with NVIDIA cards. That was true for my
> NVIDIA TNT2 M64, but my GF2MX400 is running fine. I play GLTron, Quake 3
> Arena, Tuxracer, and tons of other 3D games in linux just fine for hours
> at a time without any crashes or freezes. AA fonts work fine in KDE
> 2.1.1 and Ximian GNOME 1.4 runs beautifully. After popping in the GF2, I
> could feel the increase in 2D speed as my desktop popped up surprisingly
> quicker! Go figure... Well that is my two cents.
>
> Travis
>
> BTW I did get TwinView and TV-Out to work but it doesnt appear to be
> stable for ordinary use yet. Also, the manufacturer of the card is
> PowerColor. The card came bundled with full Windows version of Unreal
> Tournament if you wanna play with Wine.



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