On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:07:02AM +0200, Christian Mayer wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > > > Anybody care to offer suggestions for video boards for a Linux > > > > system? > > > > > > In your case I'd choose a GeForce2 MX or GeForce4 MX (probably the > > > later) > > > > Is there much benefit from going to a G3 or G4Ti board? They > > have vertex shading hardware, the G2 and G4MX boards don't. > > Not for flight gear. Flightgear only needs a fast T&L setup.
OK. I got the impression from http://www.flightgear.org/Hardware/ that nvidia drivers took advantage of HW vertex stuff. > As a "gut feeling" I wouldn't put such a board in an older PC. It's a > waste of money as the CPU and memory can't feed the board fast enough. > > If you get a brand new PC with high end CPU and memory it's best to get > a G3 or even G4. One of these days the motherboard will probably get replaced, but by the time that happens the G3 boards will probably be considered old and slow. > But if you are prepared to stay with the existing system for a while, > take a cheap card with good T&L performance and save the money for a GF5 > or even GF6 (one of these is supposed to be radical new and *much* > faster...) It's a good thing they keep improving that stuff -- otherwise I'd have to spend money on food and whatnot. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
