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[SirRadyx [GER]]

i saw you today on minstagib broken graka *g*

That was you ?
So I know why you was so easy to hit

As I saw you´ve got a new Card.
Grats..

See ya on Minstagib !

[Xant]

guess you mean it must last for the next one and a half years

of course

So I know why you was so easy to hit

and i was laughing as i won one map against you and Dim

[HJvK]

sorry, but ATI has always the best driver support, I just suggest you check ur driver versions and probaly you'll need to buy a X800 or something

[Ed]

sorry, but ATI has always the best driver support

Wrong. ATi's drivers, especially their Linux ones, are far worse than nVIDIA's. Just look at the number of ATi related problems on this forum and you'll see why.

As for card, I quite like the 7600GS. More powerful than a 6600GT and it's passively cooled. Their may well be one on AGP in a few months.

[mehere101]

ATi drivers aren't great by any means. my ATI driver will lose textures in DX9 on windows. There is their target market, so obviously that doesn't help nexuiz, which runs on most major platforms and uses opengl...

[esteel]

How does the nv6600 run compared to the ati 9800? I'm thinking about getting one too especialy as i really want to start using linux more again and I do not want to switch OS to play nexuiz. Though atis drivers seem to get better they are still very bad from what i hear. Hmm it seems there is now an official debian package for the ati drivers http://packages.debian.org/fglrx-driver so i might test that one before actually buying a new card

[Ed]

The 6600GT is a lot better than a 9800 XT. The standard 6600 is better than a standard 9800. Under OpenGL the difference is more, I would expect Nexuiz to be far quicker with the 6600.

The standard one is very good but isn't as good as the GT which is now the best selling card ever. That's quite something when you cinsider how many Geforce 2 MX's were sold in about 5 different forms over 2 years. The only point in getting a standard 6600 instead of a GT is if you can get one of the passively cooled ones. The 7600GS is quicker than the 6600GT so if you're on PCI-E get one of those (XFX 500MHz model), if AGP then wait for the AGP versions which are due in a few months, no idea if it's the same speeds though.

[Xant]

the 6600 works quite good but i haven´t noticed nexuiz is quicker with the 6600. imo it works as good as the 9800.

[esteel]

Hmm debian unstable is currently making big changes in the X part so i can't test the ati drivers without too much work and trying. So i'll wait till i can test this and KadaverJack also told me about free drivers for that class of ati cards.. Hope debian is fast with those changes

[GreEn`mArine]

Playing on Linux ? oO (Even if I was an absolute Linux-freak I'd also install Windows to play games, otherwise you will not have a real good choice of many gamse to play)

Playing Windows games: these are either supporting Direct3D (MICROSOFT) or OpelGL (sometiems both of these). ATI * OpenGL = slow (bad choice), ATI + Direct3D = good choice

if you play Nexuiz a lot and want to have good performance there, take a Nvidia card. (I bought a X850 Pro and I regret it, however, playing other retail-games would be cool with, but I don't have the time to do so^^)