Non-free Extras?

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Feb 22 22:30:06 UTC 2006



Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> 
>>> For the moment I haven't heard of an OSS solution with good performance
>>> for 3D games....
>>>     
>>
>> My Radeon 9200 works just wonderfully using the Free R200 DRI stack. 
>> (Then
>> again, I'm not much for heavily graphics-intensive games anyhoo, except
>> for the occasional match of Nexuiz with my friends.
>>   
> I am not very impressed with the benchmarks for this particular card (I 
> am looking at 9200 SE 128).
> It appears to be in the same class as an Nvidia GeForce 5200 FX. My 
> previous generation card was a 5700 FX Ultra, which at this point I 
> consider obsolete, since it can't run any of the latest games without 
> significant lag.
> 
The SE is a very bad choice it only has a 64 bit wide memory bus making 
it severly crippled. If you want to judge the 9200's judge a real one.

Regards,

Hans




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