From: Andy K. Jalics (ab212@acorn.net)
Date: Thu 05 Aug 1999 - 18:08:18 IDT
> Hello! > About the Quake issue: > I want to "upgrade" my vga card ( a S3 Trio64). I will replace it with > a Hardware-accelerated OpenGL card. > I am considering two options: > 1.- Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee with 16MB of Ram > 2.- Riva TNT with 16MB or TNT2 with 32MB > I need your advice: Which card is better for playing Quake, Quake II,III > in Linux. The Banshee has the benefit of also working with GLIDE. (actually that's how it is accelerated) However, I have a Banshee and the X server + glide for it don't seem very optimozied. Quake II gets jerky. The Nvidia server, from what I've seen on my friends computer looks better. I haven't gotten Quake I to work, and I'm wondering if it is possible to. I can only run my banshee accelerated in X, and Quake I seems to use svgalib for the keyboard input. Also I don't see how a TNT could work with Quake I either, because it also is GLX only. (obviously the TNT's do not work with GLIDE) I don't know. I suggest if you have a >200 megahertz go with the banshee. Otherwise try the TNT. Just my two forints. > Is there a significant improvement in running Mesa (OpenGL like) programs > (games :-) in Linux with these cards? Yes, depending on your processor. I don't recommend getting a card for a low end pentium or 486. >=166 megahertz pentium is when it starts helping alot. Before that your CPU is also a serious bottleneck. It will even help there, but it will be marginal. --- Andy Jalics (ab212@acorn.net) Linux: Have it YOUR way. The Source is with you young programmer, but you are not a hacker yet.
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