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Currently, the best option is GeForce4 Ti. |
Currently, the best option is GeForce4 Ti. |
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- R300: Radeon 9500, 9500PRO, 9700, 9700PRO: GOOD FEATURES, SHAKY DRIVERS. |
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ATI turned the tables in fall 2002 by releasing a texture |
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shading linux driver. |
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These boards excellent with the fragment program |
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support. Gzz still has some problems but these will |
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likely be resolved soon since active work is being done |
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in the area. |
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Also, the drivers still somewhat unstable but we're |
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working around the bugs as hard as we can.. See |
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for a list of bugs. |
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There are some bugs we can't work around which will cause |
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significant performance degradation in important applications |
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(e.g. xupdf) |
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- R100, R200: Radeon 7500, 8500, 9000, 9100: AVOID |
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ATI did not have proper Linux drivers with texture |
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shading support out during the reign of these cards. Therefore, |
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we did not buy any and have not developed support for the |
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ATI_fragment_shader extension, and you will get very suboptimal |
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results with these; just base OpenGL support. |
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If you are into programming and own one of these cards, |
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it should not be too difficult to rectify the situation; |
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contact us for help. |
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- R350, RV350, R400: UNKNOWN, LIKELY GOOD |
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NVIDIA: |
NVIDIA: |
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- NV20: GeForce4 Ti, GeForce3, GeForce3 Ti, GeForce4 Go 4200: RECOMMENDED |
- NV20: GeForce4 Ti, GeForce3, GeForce3 Ti, GeForce4 Go 4200: RECOMMENDED |
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drivers have so far been good, with only few occasional |
drivers have so far been good, with only few occasional |
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problems. |
problems. |
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- R300: Radeon 9500, 9500PRO, 9700, 9700PRO: VERY SHAKY DRIVERS. AVOID! |
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ATI turned the tables in fall 2002 by releasing a texture |
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shading linux driver. These boards excellent with |
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the fragment program support. |
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However, the drivers just do not work well enough for us. |
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Too many important things, like xupdf, just don't run. |
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See the variable GL.workaroundStupidBuggyAtiDrivers |
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for the beginning of a list of bugs. |
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I had to reinstall my trusty old GF4Ti because of this, |
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and I'm not at all happy about it. I really hope they |
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will rectify the situation, as this seems to be good |
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hardware; but until the drivers mature, we cannot justify |
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the effort to work around the driver bugs and crashes. |
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ATI_fragment_shader extension, and you will get very suboptimal |
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If you are into programming and own one of these cards, |
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it should not be too difficult to rectify the situation; |
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- R350, RV350, R400: UNKNOWN |
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Brand X: |
Brand X: |
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- support for OpenGL 1.1 is required, possibly more. 1.4 recommended. |
- support for OpenGL 1.1 is required, possibly more. 1.4 recommended. |
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The support for early OpenGL versions doesn't, for obvious reasons, get tested too much. |
The support for early OpenGL versions doesn't, for obvious reasons, get tested too much. |