[ut2003io] TNT2 on Linux

[Bryan Field-Elliot]

Sure,

PNY Technologies' Verto TNT2-M64 32MB
CompUSA $69.99

Lots on the shelf, just bought it the other day.

OK I got ripped off, nobody else need point that out. It's going back
today for a newer NVidia chipset (and probably not from CompUSA either).

Bryan


On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:22, Daniel Vogel wrote:

> Bryan, could you do me a favor and post the board manufacturer of your TNT2 (e.g. Gainward, VisionTek, ...)? I'm very surprised that you were actually able to purchase a TNT2 through retail channels.
> 
> Sorry about the confusion :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Daniel, Epic Games Inc.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Field-Elliot [mailto:bryan_lists at netmeme.org]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 3:38 PM
> To: ut2003 at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [ut2003io] TNT2 on Linux
> 
> 
> Thanks. I paid $55 for the TNT2 card at CompUSA. Obviously I don't know shit about graphics cards, but then again, neither should the UT2003 README assume otherwise. That was my point.
> 
> I'll go exchange it for a Geforce2 this afternoon.
> 
> Thanks for the other performance tips - I have a 1Gz Athlon, 768MB RAM. Should be adequate.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bryan
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 13:31, David Hedbor wrote: 
> Bryan Field-Elliot <bryan_lists at netmeme.org> writes:
> 
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> >
> > I'm running RH Linux 7.3.
> >
> > I had a Voodoo3 card, but upon trying to play UT2003, I got the
> > "DXTC/S3TC support" error.
> >
> > Reading the README file, which said "you should pop an Nvidia card into
> > your machine", I went out and bought a TNT2 (32MB) card and, as
> > instructed, popped it in.
> >
> > Now I'm still getting the same error, and a little digging around with
> > google revealed that, perhaps, the TNT2 chips don't support S3TC, and
> > that what I really need is a card with a Geforce2 chipset.
> >
> > Is this the case? At the least, the readme should be updated with the
> > more specific information. Or, if there's a workaround to get UT2003 to
> > work with my shiny new TNT2 card, I would appreciate it.
> 
> As already pointed out, the TNT2 card won't work since it lacks
> texture compression. As a side-note I really hope you didn't pay more
> than $5-10 bucks for that ancient card (it's as old as the Voodoo 3).
> 
> As for required cards, I think any GeForce card should work but I see
> no reason to get anything less than a GF2 - you should be able to get
> one for less than what the game itself costs.
> 
> What is your hardware in general? Other than the graphics card, does
> it fulfill the requirements? I'd say realistic minimum hardware is
> around 1 GHz CPU (perhaps a big less) and a GF2 graphics card. And
> that is on the lower scale of what you'd want to use (My machine is
> 1.2 GHz Athlon + GF2 Pro and it's ok, but far from great).
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 	proportional to its desirability.
> -- 
> Bryan Field-Elliot <bryan_lists at netmeme.org> 
> 
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