On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:26:27AM +0100, Erik Thiele wrote:
> which 3D card should i buy
[.. everything boils down to GL or rather mesa ..]
Well, you can't go wrong with 3dfx. It's got the most stable highest
performance drivers out there. The g400 is just not that fast yet if you
want a stable driver (pre-warp GLX)..
The g400 has an advantage however in that I have yet to convinced this
thing (Voodoo3) to run in a window. When I tell it to run in a window it
ends up full-screen anyway and it tries to use this LAME framebuffer copy
hack which makes it not even worth it. I just haven't managed to get good
3D in a window with the voodoo3 with Mesa, at least not with X 3.3.6 and
Mesa 3.1. If someone can tell me how PLEASE DO! => Why would you want
it? Just wait till something crashes. gdb and full-screen voodoo3 don't
mix. Trust me. =>
nVidia is supposed to have kickass drivers. Eventually. The only stable
drivers you can get now are for 3.3.5 and older X servers and they're so
slow you'll wonder if you're actually getting accelleration at all.
nVidia has not earned a reputation for cooperation with the community
either.
--
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Linux developer
http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43
http://www.debian.org 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3
"I wonder if this is the first constitution in the history of mankind
where you have to calculate a square root to determine if a motion
passes. :-)"
-- Seen on Slashdot
