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

[[Apoc]Death]

FWIW, the 8800 GT is great with UT3 under windoze.  I expect similar  
performance under linux once we have a client (gotta stay  
positive! :) ).

However, keep in mind that UT2004 and the 8800GT are not so great  
together.  Lots of weird intermittent and massive framerate drops  
(many have mitigated this effect significantly by hiding my first  
person weapon view, of all the silliness), and this is actually a  
*worse* issue under windows than under linux (for once!  yea!).  The  
additional linux quirk is some weird "gridding" texture corruption in  
some places.

I still play ut2004 regularly in linux on my new rig with this card,  
though, so it's not like it's unplayable or anything.

Cheers,

-Rob

On Mar 6, 2008, at 10:09 AM, 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> 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>
>
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