[plug] Video Card

[Russell Keith-Magee]

> At 07:42 27/05/2002 +0800, you wrote:
> >It does NOT have 3D accelleration.
> >
> >When "they" say hardware accellerated, they mean the driver uses
> some of the
> >cards onboard operations, rather than relying upon raw pixel blitting.
> >Matrox cards are noted for very good, high quality 2D
> performance. However,
> >even with Windows drivers, their 3D performance is comparitively
> ordinary.
>
> My main look is for somthing that won't crash much or have .5 fps
> in a GLX
> game.
> Any commments on how this would work???

On a Matrox? It wont. Sorry to say, you're going to have to spend some money
to get some performance.

That said, you won't need to spend much. Early 3D cards are getting
laughably cheap, as long as you can find one. Personal suggestion - try and
hunt down a second hand NVidia TNT or TNT2. You're probably going to have to
pony up a few bucks, but you're not going to get passable 3D to come out of
a 7 year old graphics card, no matter how hard you squeeze.

Russ %-)

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