Re: [PLUG] Inexpensive PCI OpenGL video adapter?

[Trevor J Martin <tjmartin@home.com>]

       Being a fanatic gamer myself, I did alot of research before I upgraded my voodoo 2 card.
 I was still using my windows partition to play games and Q3A hadn't made the "linux" announcement yet.
I still wanted a card that would be compatible in linux and after asking people on irc (#linux on efnet),
 came to the conclusion that the Nvidia tnt2 card would be my best investment. There were all sorts of promises 
made by Nvidia about OpenGL drivers etc.. . I waited and waited for those drivers. I kept hearing about how great voodoo3 cards
were in linux and finally, when opportunity knocked, traded my $250.00 Nvidia card to a friend for his $90.00 voodoo3 2000 card
(temporarily) to test it out in linux. Now I have one thing to say about
 voodoo3 cards... they rock! Linux support is amazing. Not only
can I play Q3A, I can play Unreal Tournament (which IMHO is alot better than
 Q3A). The performance of a voodoo3 in linux is about the
same as it is in Windows 9x and there are tons and tons of FAQ's on setting
 up the card and tweaking games for performance. If you have any
doubts at all , check out this link: http://www.linuxgames.com/articles/linux3dcards/ which is a comparison of 3d cards in linux. If you don't have
time to read the whole article, skip right down to page 8 http://www.linuxgames.com/articles/linux3dcards/page8.shtml , which is a side by side 
comparison chart of the cards. BTW : the card you should look at is the Voodoo3
 1000 PCI, However the Voodoo3 2000 also comes in PCI , 
and the performance is just as good as the AGP version (I've compared the 2 myself) , so you can check that one out as well. 

PS.    If you have the money , and want to wait , the Voodoo 4  and 5 are
 coming out and they  3dfx has announced that they will be shipping a PCI
 
           version of the 2 cards as well as the AGP version. http://www.3dfx.com/prod/sup/faq-v45.html#q5 . I may pre-order one of those puppy's !
           they are going to fully support linux on the cards http://www.3dfx.com/prod/sup/faq-v45.html#q17 . So you won't have to worry about drivers.

   I hope this has helped you,

   Trevor Martin 

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> Bill Jonas wrote:
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> > I just got Q3A for Linux (the Loki port) for my birthday, and I realized
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> > from looking at the box specs that I won't be able to play it with my
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> > current video "card" (quoted because it's mobo-integrated).
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> >
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> > Any suggestions for an inexpensive PCI OpenGL card?  (The mobo graphics
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> > are AGP, but I don't have an actual AGP slot (at least, I don't *think*
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> > so).)  Preferable ones for which the driver/X-server source is available
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> > (actually, *much* preferable).
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> >
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> > I'll have to spend money here, but the Big Win is that performance in X
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> > should improve dramatically, as I'll be able to use a
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> > hardware-accellerated X server.  (I'll have to get an external modem as
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> > well, due to a limited number of slots (I hate this machine and can't
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> > wait to get another).)
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> >
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> > Anyway, TIA.
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> >
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> > Bill
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> > --
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> > (Clever, funny, and/or witty comment goes here.)
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