On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:21:59 -0800, Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Gable wrote: > > My problems were with the ATI binary driver. It is the biggest piece > > of crap on the planet. > Excellent. I was just curious. As I have no plans to use ATi's proprietary > drivers (F/OSS driver support is the primary reason I'm purchasing this > card), I > don't think I'll have any major issues =D > > Keith Gable wrote: > > But if you're not going to do much Windows > > game emulation, an ATI is definitely okay. But if you're going to even > > attempt using Cedega, I urge you to run far far away from ATI. > > I'm not a fan of Cedega at all. The only really good games I play are things > like BZFlag, GLTron, and Cannon Smash, etc. > > Thanks for the input. =)
Then you should be fine. I'm into FPSes, and most of the ones I play (CS, 1942, etc.) don't run on Linux. I'm not dual-booting just to play games, so Cedega is my only choice. And unfortunately, the open source driver doesn't export enough advanced GL stuff to support some games (1942, BF Vietnam, etc.). So it plays a few games, but not a lot. And the binary driver doesn't work with any games because it won't init in 32 bit color (if it were me, I'd support 32 as an emulation of 24, which it does support). > > -- > () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, > /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. > --------------------------------------------------- > Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE > GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): > E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE > Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. > GPG Public Key available upon request or from > pgp.mit.edu's public key server. > --------------------------------------------------- > > > -- "Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems." -- Linus Torvalds -- [email protected] mailing list
