A gamer. Any good Linux reviews regarding the Nvidia GeForce4 chip?
Mario
>I'll second the vote on the radeon. The radeon 8500 isn't supported. If
>you pick either a generic radeon up or one of the 7000 series card you
>shouldn't have any troubles. Stay with the AGP version of the cards.
>
>Don't bother with the "VE" versions of the radeon if you are a gamer, it
>lacks some acceleration features that are probably going to be supported
>in the next release of XFree86 (check out the traffic concerning the
>tcl-0-0-0 CVS branch of the DRI).
>
>The r128, G400's, and Voodoo3/4/5 have been really stable for a while for
>3-D, but the hardware shows it's age with any game engine newer than
>quake3 or Unreal Tournament (tribes 2 is unplayable on these cards).
>
>
>
>On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Bpreece wrote:
>
>> Anita the ATI's seem to be the easiest ones to deal with IMHO.
>> I got the All in Wonder Radeon 7500 also has tv tuner 8-)
>>
>> Also has 64 meg ddr ram AGP
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Anita Pesola <jb2@tampabay.rr.com>
>> To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
>> Date: Saturday, March 30, 2002 3:29 PM
>> Subject: [SLUG] Best video card?
>>
>>
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >A question arises from my husband, who is fed up with trying to
>> >reinstall nVidia drivers with each distro of Linux he runs. What is the
>> >best video card---compatibility wise---for both Linux and Windoze???
>> >Right now he's running a geForce version
>> >(Hercules 3D Prophet II) and every time he turns around he has to
>> >recompile the drivers for the nVidia card.
>> >
>> >Remember, this comes from him. :-)
>> >
>> >Anita
>> >
>> >
>>
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