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Hej 

I går faldte jeg tilfædigvis over Linux-gamers-howto, og der står nogen meget interrasante ting om ati driverene, jeg klipper det lige her ind.


7.2. Current Status (13 July 2003)

nVidia's latest offering is the GeForce 5900, based on the NV35 chipset. It's
well supported by Linux with high quality but proprietary drivers. They do
not release information to Linux developers, and so you need to use their
binary only drivers; they are not part of XFree86. nVidia uses a convenient
combined driver architecture; their driver will support the TNT 2 all the way
up to the GeForce 5900.

ATI's has worked with Linux developers for all their Radeons up to and
including the Radeon 9200. These cards have 2D and 3D support in XFree86. I'm
not entirely sure of the quality of these open source drivers, however,
Soldier of Fortune I and Heavy Metal still have opaque texture problems under
first generation Radeons. Beyond the 9200, you need to use ATI's binary only
proprietary drivers, available in rpm format from ATI's website. These
drivers are piss poor; a friend of mine claims his GeForce 4400 outperforms
his Radeon 9700 pro. That's shameful.

On paper, and in the Windows benchmarks, the Radeon 9800 trounces the
ill-conceived GeForce 5800 and slightly edges out the GeForce 5900 according
to the latest benchmarks. On paper, it's simply the more impressive card. But
again, the driver issue makes this information unusable for us. If you have
your heart set to buy the best card for Linux, you'll want to go with the
GeForce 9800. Just prepare to be eating Ramen noodles for a few months; both
cards are hellaciously expensive.


du kan selv prøve at læse lidt frem og tilbage i den, der står faktisk mange sjove ting i.


http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/Linux-HOWTO/Linux-Gamers-HOWTO


Regards




On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:07:37 +0200
Kenneth Ahn Jensen <jakabov@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jeg skal bruge et nyt grafikkort, som primært er til 3d-spil under Windows,
> og det bedste (ift. prisen) pt. er vist Radeon 9800 Pro.
> Jeg ved at der har været ret dårlig Linux support fra ATI i starten, men
> hvordan ser det ud nu? Jeg kan se at nyeste version af Catalyst driverne er
> fra maj måned - giver de OK performance i 2D og 3D/OpenGL eller hvad? 
> 
> Host op med jeres erfaringer. ;)
> 
> ---
> Mvh
> Kenneth
> 
>