ATI Radeon [what is your favorite video card?]
Hi, After having many troubles with my gforce 256 SDR the last couple of days (and may other time over its life), I decided 'to heck with it' and am looking at a new card. I like the performance of the gforce, but the drivers are always sketchy, right now I can only do 2D (using XFree's nv driver). I've heard that the ATI Radeon's are good, but looking at SuSE's hardware database I see 'Problematically' by the cards, what kind of luck have you guys had with these cards? Are there any other cards that are good for 2D and 3D? I need something that can push 1600x1200-24bit color @85Hz and play games like Quake III at decent frame-rates (I get around 70 with 800x600 High Quality in QIIIA now). Thanks! -- Nick Webb http://www.uidaho.edu/~nickw/
Hi Nick,
While there is alot more to ask about what you need to do your requirements,
I run ATI XPERT 2000 32M AGP cards in the W98 & W2000 clients with no problems,
I run a Radeon 64M DDR AGP in my dual boot work station. It has a Nokia 445PRO
21" monitor attached which complements the card well. While I'n not a gamer,
I can push this card a lot higher than 1600x1200 -24bit. It's solid, and I have no issue
with it's performance. SaX2 finds it no problem. Etc.
I usually recommend ATI or Matox due to these having the least problems
and rock solid performance. Howbeit there needs to be comensurate monitor
and system to enjoy a nice card.
/Dee
Nick Webb
Hi, After having many troubles with my gforce 256 SDR the last couple of days (and may other time over its life), I decided 'to heck with it' and am looking at a new card. I like the performance of the gforce, but the drivers are always sketchy, right now I can only do 2D (using XFree's nv driver). I've heard that the ATI Radeon's are good, but looking at SuSE's hardware database I see 'Problematically' by the cards, what kind of luck have you guys had with these cards? Are there any other cards that are good for 2D and 3D? I need something that can push 1600x1200-24bit color @85Hz and play games like Quake III at decent frame-rates (I get around 70 with 800x600 High Quality in QIIIA now).
Thanks! -- Nick Webb http://www.uidaho.edu/~nickw/
On Sunday 28 October 2001 01:47 pm, Dee McKinney, went on about:
Hi Nick, (snip) I usually recommend ATI or Matox due to these having the least problems and rock solid performance. Howbeit there needs to be comensurate monitor and system to enjoy a nice card.
/Dee ----------------------------- Nick, I think I would agree with Dee here, the ATI & Matrox are both better supported cards as both companies cooperate with the Linux community in giving info about their products for successful drivers to be written. Both DRI and XFree86 support the Rage 128 or Radeon chipset since 4.1.0-10 version and I think you will find both acceptable for your 3D stuff.
Regards, Lee -- ---KMail 1.3.1--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
Another quick question. The theme is that the Matrox and ATI cards are solid performers, and that is good to hear. The question is what would be better, a Radion coupled with my current secondary card (Matrox millenia) or a G550 to power both monitors? My monitors are different sizes so I run different resolutions on each, without Xinerama. It would seem to me that the Matrox would be a better choice, but I've heard of people using Matrox DualHead cards on Linux, and it seems they could only use Xinerama when using both monitors. _Nick On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 03:23:16PM -0500, Lee O'Malley wrote:
On Sunday 28 October 2001 01:47 pm, Dee McKinney, went on about:
Hi Nick, (snip) I usually recommend ATI or Matox due to these having the least problems and rock solid performance. Howbeit there needs to be comensurate monitor and system to enjoy a nice card.
/Dee ----------------------------- Nick, I think I would agree with Dee here, the ATI & Matrox are both better supported cards as both companies cooperate with the Linux community in giving info about their products for successful drivers to be written. Both DRI and XFree86 support the Rage 128 or Radeon chipset since 4.1.0-10 version and I think you will find both acceptable for your 3D stuff.
Regards, Lee -- ---KMail 1.3.1--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
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