Hello Chris I use an ATI Radeon 9700 PRO graphics card in my system and it works wonderfully. I play UT2003 and it all looks good so I can only assume that ATI does support S3TC - in windows at least. I still can't get my system to load it into linux yet - I will have to keep working on it.
Rowan On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 17:25, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Do ATI's drivers support S3TC hardware texture compression yet? I knew > once upon a time that people wanting a high-end card to support playing > Unreal tournament 2003 in linux were forced to use NVidia cards because > ATI's drivers didn't support S3TC (nVidia's drivers do, UT2003 needs S3TC). > > If yes, I could consider buying a Radeon 9600 or similar since they are also > well priced and perform admirably under Windows with games that need S3TC...
