[wellylug] NVidia vs. ATI

[Jethro Carr]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 06:44, Michael Dittmer wrote:
> Mentioning Wine not WineX...I can never seem to get Wine worked out...I'm
> not sure what it is...
> 

hi Michael,

wine is the original windows emulater, designed for things like word -
more production windows apps. I can never get it going though... Winex
has been much easier for me. Anyway, the only apps I want, which don't
run on linux, is some games. Linux has replacement for just about
anything else. :-)

winex (I think it's now called something like cedega) is a commercial
branch of wine (by transgaming), designed for playing games. It's GPL'd,
but you can only download the source via cvs from their site. (unless
you find binarys somewhere else on the web). It's designed to play
windows games out of the box - Mount cdrom, winex setup.exe, install
game, winex gamename.exe and away you go. Networking, alsa & oss sound,
it's all there.

If you pay a monthly subscription, you get access to the latest games,
plus you get voting rights for the next game you want support for.

It's pretty cool. :-)


> Michael 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jethro Carr
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:29 PM
> To: WellyLUG Mailing
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] NVidia vs. ATI
> 
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 06:01, David Antliff wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> > > Which do people find performs better under Linux?
> > > I'm currently running an ATI9600 and find that its performanace under
> > > Linux is substantially below how it runs in Windows.
> > > Are peoples experiences with the Nvidia cards the same, or is it only
> the
> > > ATI cards that suffer like this?
> 
> My brother and I have the exact same nvidia geforce fx 5200 video card -
> he runs windows xp & I run Linux.
> 
> I've found video performance under my system to be better than his,
> however I do have a more powerfull cpu. But, if I removed that factor
> I'd say it's at least equal.
> 
> > I have an nvidia-based Ti4200 (128MB) with the 'binary' drivers supplied 
> > by Nvidia. Quite frankly, I have no issues with it under Linux. Twinview 
> > works too. It's just great. I can play Unreal Tournament 2004, Neverwinter
> 
> > Nights, and run RSS-GLX without problems. Whether it runs better in Linux 
> > or Windows I don't know, but I don't have any problems in either.
> 
> > Oh, wait, yes I do - the last three versions of the Windows drivers cause 
> > WinXP to lock up with a Blue Screen of Death at random intervals...
> 
> I thought that was just a windows feature? :-)
> 
> > Some people complain about the nvidia drivers "not being open source" but 
> > they do a really good job of supporting their precompiled drivers and it's
> 
> > really a non-issue for me.
> 
> 
> I would also go with Nvidia, as they have actually bothered to write
> drivers for linux AND they keep updating them. Too many companys ignore
> the linux community & don't write drivers, or just write 1 or 2 versions
> then drop it, so it becomes outdated with next kernel release - unless
> you like the 2.2 kernel so much you can't bear to leave it.
> 
> Like David said, some people complain about them being binary only, and
> yes, I can see where they're comming from, but Nvidia have done a really
> good job with their binary drivers, and keep working on them. They also
> included support for almost all their boards - even my 5 year old
> desktop's TNT2 card is supported.
> 
>  Plus I can use their driver installer program to link their binarys to
> my non-distro kernel, so it works on any kernel 2.4 or 2.6 kernel
> around, not just a particular distro's one.
> 
> 
> Also, on a slightly unrealated note, I play unreal tournament 2004, and
> various windows games (half-life, pharaoh, jedi knight 2, sim city 4)
> under winex, and whilst my brother's windows system has a new habit
> (windows seems to develop them over time) of randomly quiting games, my
> winex system emulates them perfectly. (the games, not the crashes). It
> makes you think - windows games run better on linux. :-)
> 
> 
> 
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