[Gllug] TV out

[Adam Bower]

Tethys wrote:
> Adam Bower writes:
> 
> 
>>Of course I would much prefer it if the drivers for the Nvidia cards
>>were open source but rock and hard place come to mind as if I choose
>>another manufacturer/card then I would have to use windows to play
>>games, but if i choose Nvidia I have to use a closed driver but
>>without lots of reboots to play games etc.....
> 
> 
> Huh? For which games do you need a GeForce? UT2003 is the *only* one
> I can think of that requires an Nvidia card under Linux. Certainly,
> all the others I've tried (UT, Q3A, Soldier of fortune, Kohan, Myth2,
> CivCTP, Heroes 3, Railroad Tycoon, etc.) work fine on both my G450
> and my Radeon.

When UT and Q3A first came out a while back didn't seem to work very 
well with any cards other than the Nvidia cards obviously this has 
changed now, but the performance back then seemed to be quite bad on 
other cards. With all the noise about Unreal 2 and Doom III I am 
guessing that you will again need an Nvidia card to play them unless 
either the ATI drivers get sorted out PDQ, and the Matrox cards are 
looking dated for any of these new games.

Its all very well and good pointing to games that are 2 or 3 years old 
and I am sure that UT2003 will play nicely on lots of cards in Linux in 
2 or 3 years time but that doesn't really help me wanting to play games 
today. Also if you want to consider the more professional gfx software 
(ok commercial) in Linux again to get the best performance and support 
you have to use Nvidia cards.

Adam



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