[plug] ATI Linux 3d Support (or: ATI vs NVidia)

[Quintin Lette]

My Radeon 7500 works fine 3d accelerated under Linux, I am quite happy with 
the speed my c900 plays Counter Strike (under wine :))

Regarding UT2k3, ATI cards WILL NOT play it, there is no support for a 
protocol used in the game under Linux :(( other than that though I haven't 
had any problems. 

I have also found my system more stable under Linux since upgrading from my 
old GeForce 2 card.

Regards

Quintin

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:34 pm, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> Does anyone know the current state of 3D support for Linux as concerns the
> newer ATI graphics cards? Last I looked into this, NVidia's drivers,
> although being binary only, gave comparable performance to Windows, and so
> were the 3D performance choice for Linux users...
>
> Basically, if I wanted to play, say, UT2k3 under Linux, would an ATI Radeon
> be a smart choice, or is NVidia still the Linux performance (and support)
> king?
>
> And on a related tangent, how good is ATI 2d and feature support and
> performance under Linux, compared to NVidia?
>
> Thanks...