On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 22:27, Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> wrote:
I saw that when it came out - haven't purchased any add-on stuff yet, been pretty good with it with the defaults and free aircraft from the forums.
Yes, some excellent stuff there - for anyone curious, the main forum is http://www.x-plane.org Here you can find a load of scenery objects, and aircraft that are released for free... as well as links to commercially released addons. There are other community sites, but this is the biggest one I know of.
That's good to know. I just bought a new system (a refurb HP system with a quad-core Athlon CPU and 6 GB of memory), and I think I'm probably going to replace the video card. I'll keep that nVidia card in mind - I've been thinking I'd probably go nVidia as I've generally had better luck with those drivers.
It's always a proverbial tossup when it comes to video cards. It depends on what you want. I usually tell people.... if you don't care about gaming, then get whatever card you want, including integrated Intel. In recent years, Linux drivers for ATI have come a long way - both on the community and proprietary drivers. That said, ATI still drops support for older cards so fast it makes your head spin, and you're stuck with the community drivers which usually don't quite cut it for gaming. nVidia have been a "just works" for me and most people for quite a few years now. They are the card to pick for any kind of gaming on Linux... and that is regardless of Wine, native etc... the same rule applies to Macs... ATI there is a nightmare for people expecting/wanting to use Wine for gaming. If you're looking at a new vid card, the now older GT200 series cards are often on sale for 35 to 40 Euro, and they work fine for even the most recent games. If you poke the used market, there are loads floating about for next to nothing from people upgrading to the GT500's Now that the nVidia repository is up and available for openSUSE12.1, you just need to add the Nvidia Community repository, install the driver via YaST and restart... it's worked every time for me on 12.1 :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org