Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphics Cards, 3D Acceleration, and Gaming

[morne]

I decided to test my laptop's Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M graphics card. It uses  
the G86 chipset and is something like a cut down GeForce 8400. I installed  
the non-free but native Unreal Tournament 2004 client to test a "big name"  
game.

At my native resolution (1680x1050) the game exhibited terrible artefacts and  
parts of the scenery getting stuck on the screen while moving around. At  
1024x768 there were other artefacts with some parts, like some floors, being  
rendered as black.

At 800x600 I could actually play the game without any corruption. I picked up  
the Redeemer cannon, fired it into the enemies, got a "First Blood" and then  
the game blew up and crashed :).

This laptop is from late 2007, but it was more than capable of playing old  
games like Call of Duty 2, Unreal Tournament 2004, Killing Floor, Red  
Orchestra, Left 4 Dead, Company of Heroes. They used to run with good quality  
levels too.

Despite crashing, at least UT2004 no longer claimed that I did not have 3D  
support. I will also try to test some free games if I have time later.