Re: [SLUG] Low - mid level graphic card recommendations

[Menno Schaaf <amano.ginji@xxxxxxxxx>]

The ATI drivers are ok, just a pain to install and get working (same
under windows) NVIDIA have always had much easier drivers (in my
experiance)

This wasn't supposed to become a card brand vs card brand war (i hope
anyway) I've given my suggestion, and the reasons for it, and even
with a binary driver, at least there is a good driver for the card
which you can use to play more complex games or 3d graphics if need
be.

On 6/27/05, Matthew Hannigan <mlh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:28:03AM +1000, Harald Ashburner wrote:
> > Assertion 1: There is no decent open source drivers for 3D video cards
> > Assertion 2: If you want decent 3D, use NVidia cards and NVidia binary
> > only drivers (despite ethical reservations and the extra difficulties
> > of kernel debugging etc)
> >
> > Anyone care to take issue with either of those?
> > Please?
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> Yes, neither are absolutes.
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> 1.   What's decent?  Are you playing tux racer or quake3?
> Open source are often good enough.  They only lack when playing
> high end games.   I don't think Erik is interested in those.
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> 2. Recent story on slashdot says the latest (9 Jun 2005) binary drivers for
> ATI cards are pretty good.  Haven't tried them myself.  I can't be
> bothered with binary drivers mostly.
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