Longtime lurker and user of wine, but I'm about to replace my old nvidia card with a newer model and seeing as Ati is open sourcing their drivers. I was wondering if I should get a 4800 card, but only if the fglrx or x86-radeon driver is up to the task :) Like can it run direct3d 9 games like Eve? How about 2d performance in games like fallout 2 and planescape torment?
Austin English
2009-Jan-20 00:02 UTC
[Wine] Radeon 4800 or Ati in general viable for wine?
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Zaxth <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Longtime lurker and user of wine, but I'm about to replace my old nvidia card with a newer model and seeing as Ati is open sourcing their drivers. I was wondering if I should get a 4800 card, but only if the fglrx or x86-radeon driver is up to the task :) > Like can it run direct3d 9 games like Eve? > How about 2d performance in games like fallout 2 and planescape torment? > > > > > >ATI drivers are still crappy. Give them a couple years and that may change, but Nvidia is still ahead. -- -Austin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Zaxth wrote:> Longtime lurker and user of wine, but I'm about to replace my old nvidia > card with a newer model and seeing as Ati is open sourcing their > drivers. I was wondering if I should get a 4800 card, but only if the > fglrx or x86-radeon driver is up to the task :) Like can it run direct3d > 9 games like Eve? How about 2d performance in games like fallout 2 and > planescape torment?I also wanted to give ATI a try in December 2008 but I really can't recommend ATI/fglrx neither for Wine nor Linux in general. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user/36804 http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a96989ff3303c1f6c35a1f85e0680b7f6bcfd16f http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14412#post55326 (try to spot someone in the forums with a good opinion about fglrx!) Regards