[Gllug] TV out

[Adam Bower]

Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:21:03AM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
> 
>>Tethys wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>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.
> 
> 
> Note that you need an Nvidia card to play UT2003 in MS Windows too.

Not according to the box or the website, 
http://www.unrealtournament2003.com/?faq

<quote>
Video System: 3D Accelerator card with 16 MB VRAM (*32-128 MB VRAM 
RECOMMENDED) 16 MB TNT2-class DirectX® version 6 compliant video card. 
(*NVIDIA GeForce 2/ATI Radeon RECOMMENDED) DirectX® version 8.1 
(Included on game disc)
</quote>

On Linux you need a Geforce or better IIRC, the TNT class of cards will 
not run the game. Although I wouldn't want to play it on anything less 
than my current setup of Athlon XP 1700+ and GeForce 2 GTS and even then 
I have a desire for at least a GeForce 4, although I would consider a 
Radeon 9700 Pro if they would play the game in Linux as benchmarks seem 
to show it being the current "best" card for the game in windows.

Adam


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