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post #1 of 8
5/20/04 at 5:33am
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I'm in the process of choosing a laptop right now. One of the very important thing for me is that I will want to run Linux at least as much as I run WinXP therefore how well the 3D drivers works under Linux is very important to me. Can someone with experience tell me how the three different driver compare : Nvidia's binary driver, ATI's binary driver, and the Open Source DRI Radeon driver?
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post #2 of 8
5/21/04 at 6:40am
I don´t know the direct difference in perfomance between the three, but there are other concerns also:
Nvidia is by far the most easiest drivers to install (except for Xfree86 own DRI drivers). Ati can be a little in this.
The Xfree86 DRI is performing very bad compared to the other drivers.

I use a 9600 mob. from ATI which is performing really nice under linux.
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post #3 of 8
5/21/04 at 6:27pm
Septesix, may I ask what you need 3D in Linux for?

Mikhail
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post #4 of 8
5/21/04 at 10:59pm
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Septesix, may I ask what you need 3D in Linux for?

Mikhail
I am trying to get 3d in Suse 9.1 now. I want it for UT2K4 (video game). Also the main reason is I should have everything windows offers just more stable.
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post #5 of 8
5/22/04 at 2:56am
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Originally Posted by mmarkin
Septesix, may I ask what you need 3D in Linux for?

Mikhail
I'm mostly going to use it for some graphics research. Some of the programs that I write uses OpenGL and runs really slow with software rendering (Mesa3D). A Fully accelerated OpenGL drivers under Linux will make my life a lot easier..

That , and, of course, some of the gaming under Linux as well. I'll mostly be running NWN, UT2004, and if at all possible, Doom 3..

On a related topic, has anyone compare the performance between the XFree's DRI Radeon driver and the one from ATI on the R2*0 chips? (like MR9000 and MR9200)? Is the ATI one much faster than the other?
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post #6 of 8
5/22/04 at 2:27pm
Ok, fair enough. I was just afraid that you were one of those people who thought that all games run under Linux.

I havent tested the performance myself, but the ATi drivers work fine for me.

Mikhail
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post #7 of 8
5/31/04 at 2:15am
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Originally Posted by septesix
... Can someone with experience tell me how the three different driver compare : Nvidia's binary driver, ATI's binary driver, and the Open Source DRI Radeon driver?
I strongly suggest looking at:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/ -- ATI card info
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/ -- nVidia card info

Last I checked, ATI has NOT released a driver for the mobility Radeon 9700 (mobility Radeon 9600 works -- probably can fool linux into thinking that 9700 is a 9600, until they update the driver). nVidia, on the other hand, seems to provide good support for GeForce Go cards under Linux.

Regards,

zakaluka2
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post #8 of 8
5/31/04 at 10:52am
There are still issues with Xorg and Radeon drivers...you might want to wait a bit to use FC2 if you were thinking that direction.
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