Hi folks.
I’m doing some game development (cassino type) using SDL and I want to
try to create a slot machine using OpenGL (linux only).
I want to buy a new video card to replace my TNT2.
I don’t want or can afford a high-end model so I’m thinking about a
Radeon 9100 or a GForce3 Ti.
What do you think? I want a better 3D performance but a good overrall
video quality is welcome. My wife has a ATI Rage and the video quality
is far superion than my TNT.
[]s and thank you.
Adilson.
try to create a slot machine using OpenGL (linux only).
I want to buy a new video card to replace my TNT2.
I don’t want or can afford a high-end model so I’m thinking about a
Radeon 9100 or a GForce3 Ti.
Personally, I’d say stick with NVIDIA if you want Linux support. NVIDIA
provides a unified Linux driver supporting hardware OpenGL acceleration
for its entire TNT/GeForce line. With ATI, there are a few different
open-source drivers for different cards, none of which perform very well.
I believe ATI has recently started providing a Linux driver for its 9xxx
cards, but it only works with retail “built by ATI” cards (the ones you
buy at CompUSSR for twice what you’d pay for OEM “powered by ATI” cards
from online sotres).
Jeremy Stanley wrote:
I believe ATI has recently started providing a Linux driver for its
9xxx cards, but it only works with retail “built by ATI” cards (the
ones you buy at CompUSSR for twice what you’d pay for OEM “powered
by ATI” cards from online sotres).
No, they fixed that with the 2.5.1 release a few hours after it got
posted to slashdot. 
And the drivers work with the 8500 cards too. They’re quite good,
actually. The install process isn’t as clean as NVidia’s, but the
code quality seems fine.
The current driver does not, however, work with the kernel in Red Hat
9 (which has a bunch of back-ported features from the 2.5 tree).
Hopefully they’ll get that fixed soon.
Andy–
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try to create a slot machine using OpenGL (linux only).
I want to buy a new video card to replace my TNT2.
I don’t want or can afford a high-end model so I’m thinking about a
Radeon 9100 or a GForce3 Ti.Personally, I’d say stick with NVIDIA if you want Linux support. NVIDIA
provides a unified Linux driver supporting hardware OpenGL acceleration
for its entire TNT/GeForce line.
Can I second that? I’ve been using NVidia cards and NVidia drivers under
Linux for 4 years of everything from the TNT to the newer GeForce cards.
Every release of the drivers the performance gets better and the ease of
installation gets better. The newest drivers are so easy to install…
well it is hard to believe how easy they are to use. And, they just
work.
Bob PendletonOn Fri, 2003-04-25 at 10:11, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
With ATI, there are a few different
open-source drivers for different cards, none of which perform very well.I believe ATI has recently started providing a Linux driver for its 9xxx
cards, but it only works with retail “built by ATI” cards (the ones you
buy at CompUSSR for twice what you’d pay for OEM “powered by ATI” cards
from online sotres).
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Bob Pendleton wrote:> On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 10:11, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
try to create a slot machine using OpenGL (linux only).
I want to buy a new video card to replace my TNT2.
I don’t want or can afford a high-end model so I’m thinking about a
Radeon 9100 or a GForce3 Ti.Personally, I’d say stick with NVIDIA if you want Linux support. NVIDIA
provides a unified Linux driver supporting hardware OpenGL acceleration
for its entire TNT/GeForce line.Can I second that? I’ve been using NVidia cards and NVidia drivers under
Linux for 4 years of everything from the TNT to the newer GeForce cards.
Every release of the drivers the performance gets better and the ease of
installation gets better. The newest drivers are so easy to install…
well it is hard to believe how easy they are to use. And, they just
work.
As I said, I do have a NVIDIA (TNT2) for a long time and it works quite
well. I have only one problem: I use kylix 3 and it just freezes with
the NVIDIA drivers newer than 3123.
I was thinking about RADOEON because of DRI (but to tell the truth, I
don’t know if it will help) and better support for console frame
buffers. As NVIDIA does not release the specs, all I can do is to use
the VESA framebuffer and I want to squeeze more performance.
[]s
Adilson.
Bob Pendleton wrote:
try to create a slot machine using OpenGL (linux only).
I want to buy a new video card to replace my TNT2.
I don’t want or can afford a high-end model so I’m thinking about a
Radeon 9100 or a GForce3 Ti.Personally, I’d say stick with NVIDIA if you want Linux support. NVIDIA
provides a unified Linux driver supporting hardware OpenGL acceleration
for its entire TNT/GeForce line.Can I second that? I’ve been using NVidia cards and NVidia drivers under
Linux for 4 years of everything from the TNT to the newer GeForce cards.
Every release of the drivers the performance gets better and the ease of
installation gets better. The newest drivers are so easy to install…
well it is hard to believe how easy they are to use. And, they just
work.As I said, I do have a NVIDIA (TNT2) for a long time and it works quite
well. I have only one problem: I use kylix 3 and it just freezes with
the NVIDIA drivers newer than 3123.
I have one machine where the NVidia drivers would lock up. I did some
research, i.e. I read the Nvidia help files, and found that it was due
to a known problem with the chip set. I made the recommended change in
the configuration and now it “just works”.On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 11:09, Adilson Oliveira wrote:
On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 10:11, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
I was thinking about RADOEON because of DRI (but to tell the truth, I
don’t know if it will help) and better support for console frame
buffers. As NVIDIA does not release the specs, all I can do is to use
the VESA framebuffer and I want to squeeze more performance.[]s
Adilson.
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