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

[Ben Jensz]

Trevor Phillips wrote:

>^_^
>My current GF2 system is fairly stable. Can't remember when I last had any 
>crashes or anything...
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It depends what ATi card you're looking at getting and how much you're 
prepared to spend.  If you're looking at the 9500 or 9700 series Radeons 
(Pro or non-Pro), then they have features which will prolong your game 
playing experience further than buying a current nVidia card will.  
Unless you want the noisey heater that is the nVidia Geforce FX, which 
is not quite available yet, more expensive than the Geforce 4 killing 
Radeon 9700 Pro and is only slightly faster in some Windows benchmarks 
than the 9700 Pro (and in some the 9700 Pro is STILL faster - not bad 
for a card thats been out for 6 months - especially when nVidia have had 
~12 months R&D time since the GF4 came out).

Definetly flogs my previous Geforce 2 GTS silly thats for sure :).

I still use Windows for gaming currently, as I haven't heard anything 
about anyone getting Battlefield 1942 working under Linux, and I just 
can't do without that game... :)


/ Ben