[ut3] What graphics card will be fast enough for playing ut3 in linux in 1920x1200?

Sir Brizz sir.brizz at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 11:17:35 EST 2008


That is incorrect. The 8800 GT is faster than the old 8800GTSs (at lower 
RAM), however, nVidia upgraded the GTS series.

Brizz

Ron Overdrive wrote:
> The 8800GT is designed to replace the 8800GTS entirely. They're 
> phasing out the GTS so best to get the GT. As for performance loss its 
> really dependant on your drivers. The linux drivers are more immature 
> compared to its windows counterpart so theres gonna be some slow down. 
> I recommend that you make sure you're using nvidia 169.07 (especially 
> if you get the GT).
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Ilnseher 
> <ilnseher at eit.uni-kl.de <mailto:ilnseher at eit.uni-kl.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi there.
>
>     I got a new monitor that does 1920x1200.
>
>     unfortunately my 6600GT is too slow to do 1920x1200 for ut2k4 with
>     acceptable FPS (acc. FPS is > 60fps ALL time).
>
>     so I need to get a new gfx card now! as I hope that UT3 will be
>     realeased for linux, I want a gfx card that is fast enough to play UT3
>     in linux with 1920x1200 with an acceptable FPS rate.
>
>     (that might be either an 8800GT or 8800GTS 512).
>
>     I would be glad if ryan could give me an rough estimate how much
>     performance I will loose on Linux compared to winblows.
>
>     I will buy the new GFX card in two weeks or so, as I will attend the
>     DATE next week.
>
>     Thx all.
>     --
>     Thomas Ilnseher <ilnseher at eit.uni-kl.de
>     <mailto:ilnseher at eit.uni-kl.de>>
>
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