Which video card should I buy

[soapee01]

I went with an nVidia Geforce 4 MX 440-SE. Works like a champ. Installed the nvidia drivers a couple hours ago.. Wooo Hooo. I can almost see the scales on the Herring in tux racer.

As posted b4, I'm not a gamer, but then again I've never had a system so new and quick (by my standards). if anyone knows some easy games to install that I should try, let me know.

As always, thanks for the valuable advice.

soap

[VeeDubb]

I'm new to linux gaming, so I can't suggest anything specific, but I'm glad to hear you went nVidia and it's working well for you.

[horo]

Hi soapee01,

did you try FrozenBubbles (KMenu/Games/Tetris-like)? I's a simple game that gives hours of fun. My little daughter likes it also very much.

Ciao Martin

[Viro]

I'm surprised that there is this much preference for Nvidia over ATI. I have a moble radeon on my laptop and everything worked perfectly. 3D acceleration worked without me doing anything (although I can't remember if this was with mandrake or knoppix and the laptop is in the shop right now for other repairs.)

I don't like the radeon drivers (specifically DRI) in the current XFree86 4.3. They don't work with games like Neverwinter's Nights (display artifacts) and UnrealTournament 2003(display artifacts,crashes), but above all, if I use any program that makes use of DRI, I can't logout/shutdown. Screen just goes blank, and my computer keeps on running. Hitting the power button or reset now could corrupt my filesystem. Something I don't need. So while they are more open with their drivers, I'd stick to nVidia for now.

As posted b4, I'm not a gamer, but then again I've never had a system so new and quick (by my standards). if anyone knows some easy games to install that I should try, let me know.

UnrealTournament2003 has a demo for Linux http://www.unrealtournament2003.com and Neverwinter's Nights. I know, these are commercial games, but seeing as these companies do bother with a Linux port, we should support them.