Re: multi-seat gamers videocard prefs

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Piektdiena, 23. Septembris 2005 14:17, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Nature has inflicted me with not being a gamer.
>
> I tried Xorg on Debian and my TNT2 AGP + MX-440 PCI
> with the closed source driver, for the eyecandy
> transparency.
>
> The driver has a fatal failure (TM) here:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=31858&page=1&pp=15&highlig
>ht=loop
>
> But the experiment confirmed that with good graphics
> cards the GPU ought to do the work and not the CPU
> processor.
>
> Which brings up a question: if there are multi-seat
> gamers out there: what are your card preferences? With
> what X? With what driver?

Any sane gamer under Linux chooses Nvidia, because of
best and fast GLX implementation, which was ready years ago.

Mesa GL may be works great with old 3DFX cards, but support
of newest chips is (very) poor. It also slower than Nvidia.

Unfortunately nvidia is not very stable. I couln't compare
nvidia GLX ans MesaGL stability. Code is very hard and large.
Rather Mesa is unstable too.

Most up-to-date games are tuned to work with nvidia
closed source drivers. I mean that 2-4 titles raleased
2003-2005. Topmost emulator Cedega/Winex is tuned for
nvidia too.

Aivils