The Nvidia Geforce GTS2 is about the best card you can get. (and not to
much trouble to set up). if you get one, go to www.evil3d.net and look
for an artical by avatar (think that is his name), it will tell you what
you need to do to set them up for mandrake 7.0 ,and 7.1 (yes the setup
is different).
Mark Hillary
NVIDIA IS BEST!!!
Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
> 3dfx cards are great! I had 2 voodoo2's in my old
> linux box. I had the details levels set to a medium
> range (eye candy but not AMAZING) in quake3 and got
> 60-70 fps on small maps, 40-50 on large or very
> detailed maps. I now have a voodoo5 that I am still
> trying to configure in linux. I'll let you know what
> it is like when I get it going. I've found that you
> can use its FSAA in almost any game that isn't brand
> spankin' new to great affect. I mean that games
> without any jaggies or pixel popping or crawlies are
> amazing. I can't stand to look at my old machine now.
>
> Bottom line is if your going for straight frames per
> second you'll probably want a geforce2 (ultra? if
> you've got 400 USD) but, if you are willing to trade
> off a bit of performance for sheer smooth beauty you
> might want to go for the voodoo5.
>
> 3dfx also does quite a bit to support the linux
> community too.
>
> Dacia
> --- Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
> > >
> > > Andrew Brown wrote:
> > > >
> > > > At long last i am attempting to use linux as my
> > desktop for just about
> > > > everythin. One off the final parts of this
> > decision was the porting off
> > > > specific games to linux. My question is, through
> > research i have come to the
> > > >
> > > > conclusion that the best 3d card for me to get
> > fo gaming purposes( quake 3,
> > > > Unreal tournament) for my linux box would be one
> > from 3dfx inc., could
> > > > anyone comment on this/give a personal
> > prespective or give personal
> > > > experience on linux and 3d cards? Any help would
> > be much appreciated. Thank
> > > > you
> > >
> > > Get something from Nvidia. They seem to support
> > the Linux community
> > > better than just about anyone else. Voodoo is
> > okay, Matrox is pretty
> > > cool, Nvidia is better *right now*. ;-)
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > /\
> > >
> > Dark><Lord
> > >
> > \/
> >
> > I love NVIDIA with 32MB. of video RAM.
> >
> > --
> > Roman
> > Registered Linux User #179293
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