I have read the reviews about that card, and the performance will be less than acceptable. I would be comparable to an nvidia geforce2, and that thing would cost around $30-$50 not $100. Cheers Szemir
On July 18, 2004 08:26, Andrew Graupe wrote: > bogi wrote: > >Also, the hardware manufacturers can tweak their nda-contracts and reduce > > the fees needed to create the drivers in the first place. Also, they > > could actually publish the driver specification a few weeks ahead of > > market-time to allow for the development of free and open-source > > (drivers) modules for them hadware devices. But sometimes they can't do > > that, because of some contractual issues, and then the open-source > > community is left with heavily experimental > > patch-it-in-on-your-own-kinda-solutions. I had a situation like this > > years ago, what did i do? Yank the card and get a decent one that has > > proper modules, bingo, and i do play rtcw at 70-odd frames a second on my > > 333celeron using an nvidia2. 8-) > > That solution crossed my mind, but I didn't feel like going out to the > store and dropping $100, when it's not even my main gaming PC. It is > still in my mind, and if video performance is less than acceptable, I > know what to do. > > > Cheers > > Szemir > > > >On July 18, 2004 00:02, Andrew Graupe wrote: > >>Let me start by saying: I like linux. I think the world would be better > >>if everyone used it, and at least a bit more spyware free. That being > >>said, I have just spent most of the day trying to get 3D acceleration > >>with my integrated S3 UniChrome chip. I will say this in favor of > >>nVIDIA and ATi, at least they're common enough that people have come up > >>with workarounds for the various linux bugs. I write this near > >>midnight, after a marathon session of patching, kernel recompiles, and > >>other unpleasantness. That being said, I will still have to reboot > >>often if I want optimum performance because gentoo-dev-sources (which is > >>fast for normal things) can't be patched to work with VIA video chips. > >>I think I'll stay with this for now. At least if the Neverwinter Nights > >>install (the entire reason I'm doing this) goes without a hitch, it will > >>mean a great advancement in terms of linux games. I guess we don't hear > >>about linux games that much because it's so phenomenally hard to get to > >>this point. > >> > >>I don't mean to flame or troll, but this is the truth. Linux could be a > >>*TEENSY* bit more userfriendly. If the patches for VIA support are out > >>there, why haven't they been merged into the main kernel tree? I have > >>to think that VIA is a fairly big value-mobo manufacturer (the PC in > >>question is an HP; imagine how many are out there), so it's not a fringe > >>brand. At least it's done now. > >> > >>Regards, > >> > >>Andrew Graupe > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>clug-talk mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > >_______________________________________________ > >clug-talk mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
