Linux Voodoo3 performance (was Linux University)

[Mike Cantrell]

Check it out... 

http://www.nvidia.com/drivers/xfree86_40.html

nvidia has finally released the DRI drivers for it's cards. They aren't
open source but I'm just happy to see it. linuxgames.com has a first
look and it looks pretty promising. The end of the article states equal
or better performance than windows machines on similar hardware. We'll
see... I ordered a geForce today.

http://www.linuxgames.com/articles/nvidia_first_look

Regards,
Mike Cantrell


Mike Cantrell wrote:
> 
> Jason Brown wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > > No DRI support for nVidia cards because of the closed source drivers
> > > (not linux's fault of course)... 3dfx has really came to the table with
> > > it's arms out but I still get really poor performance with my voodoo3
> > > with games like Unreal Tournament and Quake 3.
> >
> > I run a pIII550 with a voodoo 3000 agp and my experience with quake3 has been
> > great.
> >
> > Jason Brown
> 
> Well, you're a little ahead of me on the hardware end. I'm only running
> a p2-350 w/ Voodoo3 200 PCI. I guess I should say that it's not really
> horrible. It's actually quite playable on most maps but I'm very picky
> about my frame rate and it just runs much smoother in windows.
> 
> Do you have windows loaded on the same computer? If so, what kind of
> frame rate difference have you notices (if any at all)?
> 
> Regards,
> Mike Cantrell