I welcome myself...

Fortean · 01-04-05, 09:32 AM

to the forum. I just bought a 6600gt card after having to deal with ATI's substandard drivers and empty promises for nine months (I owned a 9800Pro). After installing the nvidia drivers on my Suse 9.2 PC, I was amazed on how well Doom3 and Unreal tournament were working. KOTOR worked with minor problems with Cedega, as did Far Cry... On the other side of the fence I always used to hear how things are improving and one day we would have proper drivers but, frankly, nvidia's driver is years ahead.

So, congratulations nvidia, as a linux user I thank you for your efforts.

Clay · 01-04-05, 09:37 AM

Welcome to nV News! I'm confident that you'll find out Linux forum here to be a great asset and source of information.

mrn · 01-04-05, 10:47 AM

same thing with me

, switched from nvidia to ati when ati announced linux drivers, switched back about a month ago after I realized those drivers wouldn't get any better

Fortean · 01-04-05, 11:40 AM

Well, the ATI drivers thing is getting truly ridiculous. At this point, the quality of the drivers is not really the point, the main problem is that ATI have said clearly that they regard the Linux market as an insignificant, 2% niche, which is fine by me really, I think their calculations are correct. When there is an alternative, however, that produces fully functional drivers and treats customers with respect (read mtippet's entries in rage3d forums and compare it with nvidia's constant support in these forums), I think I will stop caring about ATI's policies on Linux drivers and just spend my money on a company that supports my OS.

01-04-05, 09:32 AM	#1
Fortean Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 13	I welcome myself... to the forum. I just bought a 6600gt card after having to deal with ATI's substandard drivers and empty promises for nine months (I owned a 9800Pro). After installing the nvidia drivers on my Suse 9.2 PC, I was amazed on how well Doom3 and Unreal tournament were working. KOTOR worked with minor problems with Cedega, as did Far Cry... On the other side of the fence I always used to hear how things are improving and one day we would have proper drivers but, frankly, nvidia's driver is years ahead. So, congratulations nvidia, as a linux user I thank you for your efforts.

01-04-05, 09:37 AM	#2
Clay Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,992	Re: I welcome myself... Welcome to nV News! I'm confident that you'll find out Linux forum here to be a great asset and source of information. __________________ SLI GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB @ 550/1700 \| MSI K8N Neo4/SLI \| A64 X2 4400+ Toledo \| CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) TwinX PC 3500 \| Silverstone ST65ZF 650W\| 93.71\| XP SP2 and a Dell 2405FPW I personally believe that us americans are unable to do so because osama. People out there in our nation don't have that, And I believe that our education like such as south africa and such as the Iraq. everywhere "such as". And I believe our education should help the US should help the south africa and the iraq and the asian countries so we can build up our future. -- Miss Teen South Carolina

01-04-05, 10:47 AM	#3
mrn Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 254	Re: I welcome myself... same thing with me , switched from nvidia to ati when ati announced linux drivers, switched back about a month ago after I realized those drivers wouldn't get any better

01-04-05, 11:40 AM	#4
Fortean Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 13	Re: I welcome myself... Well, the ATI drivers thing is getting truly ridiculous. At this point, the quality of the drivers is not really the point, the main problem is that ATI have said clearly that they regard the Linux market as an insignificant, 2% niche, which is fine by me really, I think their calculations are correct. When there is an alternative, however, that produces fully functional drivers and treats customers with respect (read mtippet's entries in rage3d forums and compare it with nvidia's constant support in these forums), I think I will stop caring about ATI's policies on Linux drivers and just spend my money on a company that supports my OS.