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

[Paul]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 10:09 -0500, Ron Overdrive wrote:
> The 8800GT is designed to replace the 8800GTS entirely. They're

The OP mentioned 8800GTS 512 ... that is a different beast than the 8800
GTS 320/640.  The 512 version won't be going away very soon.

>  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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