Re: [Syllable-developer] recommended graphics cards advice

[trott3r <tr...@tr...>]

On 8:45:07 pm 18/09/2006 "Kristian Van Der Vliet" <va...@li...> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:02:22 +0200, Arno Klenke <arn...@ya...>
>  wrote:
> >  trott3r schrieb:
> >>  On 5:53:28 pm 18/09/2006 Arno Klenke <arn...@ya...> wrote:
> >>>  trott3r schrieb:

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> >>  However i have decided to downgrade the gfx card for the other
> >>  system as well as syllable since i dont do much gaming and also
> >>  not bothering upgrading xp to vista so I would still like
> >>    suggestions please.
> >  The best supported devices in syllable are:
> >
> >  *Intel onboard chipsets starting from the i830
> >  *Nvidia devices starting from the first geforce
> >  *sis devices (there are not many non-onboard sis chipsets)
>
> S3 Savage cards are also well supported.
>
> I currently use machines with the following cards:
>
> Intel i845
> Intel i945
> Matrox G200
> Radeon 7000
> S3 Savage IX

only the matrox g200 is in the table for amithlon supported cards.
Searching on ebay uk shows the g200 is a specialist board with only 8meg of
memory while the other responder said 16 meg preferable.

> and I used a GeForce2 MX in a machine for quite some time.

That looks better but still on ly 32meg of ram on board.

>  Out of all
> of those, the i945 (With the CVS/0.6.2 driver) & Savage IX are the
> best supported.  The GeForce2 MX was also near-perfect.  The Radeon
> 7000 and i845 and good, but the Radeon 7000 suffers from "shimer";
> possibly poor memory-timing in the Radeon driver.  Support for the
> G200 is basic, but it does work and it is accelerated, but it is the
> only card on the list that does not support video overlays.

Any newer cards that are well supported?

Thanks for geforce 2mx suggestion that has some potential apart from its
age.

Just noticed the matrox is a pci card which could mean i could use my
geforce 6600 gt AGP and the matrox PCI at the same time. Anyone else known
to have had success with this sor of setup?

Martin N