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

Renato Perini rperini at email.it
Thu Mar 6 11:35:08 EST 2008


Yes, but now 169.09 is the new reference driver for Linux.

Ron Overdrive ha scritto:
> 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 
> <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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>
>     >     <mailto:ilnseher at eit.uni-kl.de <mailto:ilnseher at eit.uni-kl.de>>>
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