Re: [PLUG] OT: Video Card Choice

[Noah Silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

It doesn't really matter to me, but I am confused here, which drivers
are of poor quality.  I didn't do anything special to get my radeon
cards working (I went through two of them in the past few months,
because the first one didn't have DDR).

I don't play 3D games a lot, but the OpenGL appears to work (stuff like
Tux Racer is fast).

  -- noah silva

On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 13:51, Flint Heart wrote:
> On 9 Jun 2002, Noah Silva wrote:
> 
> > I think it depends on what you want.  I myself have a Radeon 8500
> > TwinView card.  I don't know all of the details, but I think any
> > super-hard-core gamers would get some GeForce 4 card.  OTOH, Someone
> > from ID recently said they liked the radeon cards better.
> > 
> >  -- noah silva
> 
> I just replaced my aging geforce 256 ddr with a geforce 4 4600.  If you
> game stay with either the geforce 3's or the non-mx geforce 4's.  Great
> drivers and great performance.  Carmak has said in recent interviews that
> he loves the arcitechture of the new ati cards but due to the poor quality
> of the drivers he recomends the geforce 4's ( as far as the current crop of
> video cards)  Especialy if you are planning on running linux on your
> machine I'd highly recomend a nice geforce card.  And remember to stay with
> the geforce 3's and non-mx geforce 4's (geforce 4 mx's are just realy fast
> geforce 2's, they lack vertex and pixel shading capability)  I'm out of the
> hardware race until I can find a new job(keep those job posts comming)  I'm
> pretty content with my athlon 1.33 ghz system with 512mb ram and a geforce
> 
> N-Tropy
> 
> p.s. with a dvi to vga adapter I think all of the geforce 4 cards with dvi
> can run dual monitor.  I haven't picked one up yet to hook up my old 19" to
> this machine. *drools*
> 
> 
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