Jim Wilson wrote:
>
> "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > My previous card was a Voodoo-3 ... this was a 16 bit card, 16 bit
> > textures, 16 bit depth buffer, etc. At the time the mesa based linux
> > drivers had some bugs which led to annoying visual artifacts, and
> > jumpy/jerky motion.
> >
>
> Well in defense of a great company that got bought up and shutdown (not
> necessarily in that order) by the almighty competition...my voodoo3/3000 still
> works great. Admittedly it was touchy on X3.3.x and earlier X4.0.x, but I'm
> running with no issues at all right now with "decent" (by 1999 standards)
> performance. Smooth motion, no artifacts. So 3dFX should (posthumously) get
> credit for being the first real 3D card supporting Linux :-)
>
> Been thinking about upgrading and I'm somewhat undecided on whether I should
> get the open source supported Voodoo 5000 (getting cheap these days) or go
> with nVidia.
Get a card with T&L setup (i.e. a GeForce or a Radeon). FlightGear
profits heaps from the T&L setup.
CU,
Christian
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