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I am looking to get a new video card. I have used an NVidia with Linux |
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for a *long* time now. I can't recall when I last bought an ATI card, |
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at least 6 years or more. |
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Anyway I want to get some feedback on the current ATI driver state. Are |
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they stable and pretty easy to use/install? Any problems with games? |
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How about commercial OpenGL games ported to Linux like Call of Duty and |
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Doom 3? |
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I am asking because Newegg has some nice deals on ATI X1600 series |
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starting at $99 USD: |
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http://images10.newegg.com/UploadFilesForNewegg/NEemail/promo050706/index.htm |
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I probably will just go with NVidia. NVidia's Linux support has always |
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been rock-solid for me and installation is as easy as executing the |
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NVIDIA script, or using the ebuild with Gentoo. |
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However, a nice new ATI at those prices is tempting if ATI has gotten |
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their Linux act together. Do the proprietary ATI Linux drivers have |
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*all* of the features that the proprietary ATI Windows drivers have? |
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One thing I like about NVidia's driver is that it is a unified driver |
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model and the drivers are basically feature for feature identical on the |
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different oses. |
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Jim |
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