Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware that works with Trisquel and Ryzom

[chris]

I'm really not trying to disagree with you although I think we have slightly  
different perspectives and I'd just like to make people aware of why we chose  
what we did. I'm not sure you understood our criteria / evaluation so I'd  
just like to point out why we went with this card (the other posting is more  
detailed response to your comments).

I'd be weary of going with an older card. Unfortunately some of these older  
cards will lose support and some aren't any better than the Intel chipsets  
people already have accelerated drivers for on newer systems. The newest  
cards may not work as well (or at all) either... and we are not making  
available anything terribly recent either. The driver support just doesn't  
exist. The 9500GT is already quite a few years old although the best  
currently available given all the factors involved. This isn't solely our  
view. We sought more expert advise from those who deal with evaluating  
graphics cards on a day to day basis and the developers themselves who are  
working on the drivers. So again between  
performance/compatibility/support/etc this is what we decided on. That isn't  
to say there aren't slightly better performing cards as you pointed out in  
another post (9800GT).