Hello, On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, J Sloan wrote: [..]
never got around to replacing it since the onboard intel video works well enough. I can't play the latest 3D FPS, but it has more than enough capability to do the desktop eye candy, and I can play that old favorite, quake 3 arena quite well.
Quake 3 "old favourite"? Move along, grasshopper. -dnh, himself not qualifying as an old fart, but "old favourites" are Lemmings, Monkey Island, Paradroid90, Civilization II (*), Descent... And if Descent isn't 3d, what is? Oh, and _my_ preferred Video Chip (on which I played all above mentioned games) is a MGA 1064SG w/ 4 MB SGRAM on a Mystique. Rock solid, not even a heatsink, and crisply displaying pixels on my main working machine for about 12 years now, with 2 summers of room-temps over 40 °C (104 °F). *exits stage left, sniggering* *) and the Linux-ported descendants "Civ - Call to Power" and "Alpha Centauri" -- "What I saw in the Xerox PARC technology was the caveman interface, you point and you grunt." -- Eben Moglen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org