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

Ron Overdrive rakeron at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 11:18:55 EST 2008


I was going by the tests done on 100.14 which phoronix compared SLi in
Windows to SLi in Linux.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Renato Perini <rperini at email.it> wrote:

> phoronix says, according to its test, that the situation you're
> describing it's false.
> Now the Linux drivers are exactly the same than the windows one.
>
> Ron Overdrive ha scritto:
> > 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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