3D cards (was Re: [Gllug] Plank Drivers)

[Stephen Harker]

On Wednesday 07 August 2002 23:41, Nix wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, John Southern moaned:
> > Silent Wings
> > http://home.online.no/~tseval/sw/
>
> oOOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOOOOOOO.
>
> I must *must* get a 3D video card. This has convinced me; my Mill II is
> all very well, but I've had enough of not being able to gawp at things
> like this.
>
> Has anyone got any suggestions? Avoiding binary-only modules is critical
> because my system doesn't use the usual IA32 calling conventions so I
> must recompile everything; so that rules nvidia out, I guess.
>
> Any others recommended? G450, or are they too old these days?
>
> (My mobo isn't AGP-capable, for what it's worth.)
Well in that case, I can recommend getting hold of an old PCI Nvidia TNT2 card 
for about £25. They went like the clappers even back then (1999-2000?)
Perfectly acceptable for Half-Life/Quake3/Unreal etc. I had one on a K6-500 
and it was very fast. I know the yardstick has moved up now but if you don't 
have AGP then the newer cards aren't going to be much of an improvement 
anyway. Not entirely sure what the 3D XFree86 driver is like for TNT2 but it 
should be OK. Anyone?
Steve
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