What AGP card did you use to get 3D?

[uberlinux]

I have a Radeon 9200se, but I want something that I can play things like boson on, or some 3D racing games

[tonysathre]

what are u asking, a new video card for playing these or what

[uberlinux]

yeah, I want a card that dosent suck, so I'm asking what would REALLY work for 3D

[tonysathre]

how much u wanna spend

[uberlinux]

has to be AGP and reletively inexpensive. Not a gamer, just want to try out the racing games in linux and play a little Boson

[tonysathre]

check out ATI.com

[uberlinux]

no, you see. I'm asking Ubuntu users what they use. I don't care what jibber-jabber is on the ATI site, when has a vendor ever been of any help?

[Teroedni]

Yes Nvidia card is Good
Myself have an ti4200 nv25core Nvidia card
with this card i get 100 fps average in planetpenguin-racer
You can check with your radeon card what your getting there;)
Look here
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCards

Geforce 5200 fx is good
or an geforce mx 4 which is the cheapest Nvidia card around,but still have good performance(the 128mb version of geforce4mx is as strong as the 5200fx;)

The best is to buy the old nvidia ti 4200 or 4400 or 4600
They give very much value for the money than when you shop them as demo
I bought my ti4200 for 40$ so if you find some ti under 50$ i would go for it:)

I have myself bought a 6200AGP now .So if your interested in that card you may wait and see if it all goes well for me. But i guess so since nvidia have a driver for it:)
I am actually exited to see if this card perform better than my ti4200

[tonysathre]

sorry... i got a nvidia geforce 4 mx 420 and it works fine with games and such

[shakin]

Only look at Nvidia cards. Get whichever one is closest to what you want to spend. A quick look at pricewatch.com found an Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT AGP 128MB for $147. Sounds like a winner to me. Get the 256MB version if you can afford it for $219.

If I were personally going to buy a new video card it'd either be that or the 6800 GT for a bit more.

[floyd27]

I love ati cards but nvidia has better openGL and linux drivers...
ATI drivers are not that great right now and a bit tricky for some to install..

[uberlinux]

Yes Nvidia card is Good
Myself have an ti4200 nv25core Nvidia card
with this card i get 100 fps average in planetpenguin-racer
You can check with your radeon card what your getting there;)
Look here
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCards

Geforce 5200 fx is good
or an geforce mx 4 which is the cheapest Nvidia card around,but still have good performance(the 128mb version of geforce4mx is as strong as the 5200fx;)

The best is to buy the old nvidia ti 4200 or 4400 or 4600
They give very much value for the money than when you shop them as demo
I bought my ti4200 for 40$ so if you find some ti under 50$ i would go for it:)

I have myself bought a 6200AGP now .So if your interested in that card you may wait and see if it all goes well for me. But i guess so since nvidia have a driver for it:)
I am actually exited to see if this card perform better than my ti4200
Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for!

[Teroedni]

By the way dont buy 64mb version. After what i know they are bad.
I have atleast never bought Nvidia below 128 mb.

I think 64 versus 128 can seriosly lower the performance.

[tonysathre]

ya thats true...i have noticed that using transset and xcompmgr significantly slow down my box, im looking at an ati card but dont think i will get it because the linux drivers arent that great, nvidia is prolly the way ill go

[trian]

Well, I have a Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB card (Also called M11) After using the guide for installing it on the forums here I finally got it working, Using the default ATI installer just messes the whole shabang up.
Starts and runs WOW great now that I added something to the cedega config file

[Teroedni]

I have now my new machine set up

with my 2.0ghz amd athlon xp and ti4200 128mb i get average 100fps i planetpenguinracer

with my turion 1,6 ghz and geforce 6200 256mb ram i get 120 fps

So i would say that an ti4200 is not far from an geforce 6200;)

[Staesys]

I have the ATI Radeon 9250 PCI 256MB card using the fglrx drivers from the repositories. I used the fglrx-config program and it's been running fine ever since. *shrug*

Quake 4 is a bit slow, but then again, I'm currently running on a Celeron 2GHz processor too. My XP box has a Celeron 2.93GHz processor with an Nvidia GeForce 5500 FX OC 256MB and it smokes my linux box in benchmarks.

Then again, my linux box has only 256MB RAM while my XP box has 1GB RAM, so that maybe part of the difference. *shrug*

Get whatever you can afford.

[Artificial Intelligence]

If I was you I would switch around the two graphic cards.

[stimpack]

Use a Ati X800 in one comp and just replaced a ATI 9700pro with a nvidia 6800 in another. I am a huge ATI fan, but have to say the nvidia is way better in linux, nice to hit the 60fps cap in quake4 and WoW under cedega is now playable.

[Rumo]

I would recommend an nvidia card, since their linux support is much better than ATI's (especially in conjuction with cedega and/or wine). Which card depends on how much money you'd like to spend.

For most linux games the pretty old Geforce 4 Ti4200 (or better) will suffice - you will get them cheap at ebay.com. For Doom 3 (or Unreal) its probably better to spend more money on a new card (like the Geforce 6600 or 6800, which are not that expensive).

[-Rick-]

I got a nvidia ti 4800. Doom 3 and Quake 4 is playable with it.

[Stealth]

I got a Geforce 6800GT workin fine on my desktop and a GeforceGo 6800 working fine on my laptop...

[Pablo_Escobar]

I've got Gigabyte Radeon 9550 128MB (128-bit) works great in Hoary and Breezy.

I just wished ATI would work harder on the drivers for their cards :(

[crane]

Only look at Nvidia cards. Get whichever one is closest to what you want to spend. A quick look at pricewatch.com found an Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT AGP 128MB for $147. Sounds like a winner to me. Get the 256MB version if you can afford it for $219.

If I were personally going to buy a new video card it'd either be that or the 6800 GT for a bit more.
I bought the 6600 256meg version. No problems what so ever.

[jecos]

I have a Radeon 9200se, but I want something that I can play things like boson on, or some 3D racing games

For one thing you buy a low-end SE card , what do you expect. Your 9200 supports the open source dri r200 driver(nvidia only has a proprietary 3d driver) and ati's proprietary driver . For the games you want to run that card should be fine. Pretty much all native linux games run with ATI's drivers. Some cedega games won't run yet, but thats a work-in-progress.

ATI is in the progress of further developing the linux driver so don't anyone say you wish they'd put more support behind their drivers. They are working on it and we have someone from ATI giving us support on Rage3d linux forums.. New ATI drivers will most likely start coming out every month now instead of every two months.

If you have to run windows games like Battlefield 2 in linux than buy an nvidia right now. But theres no reason to buy nvidia if your not running cedega games that are listed to not yet work on ATI.

[Azzaro]

Using a Nvidia 6800 here working like a charm =)

easy install and everything :p

[OldGaf]

Nvidia 6600gt is quite fast and is very cheap now.

[Miguel]

If you have to run windows games like Battlefield 2 in linux than buy an nvidia right now. But theres no reason to buy nvidia if your not running cedega games that are listed to not yet work on ATI.

Mmmmm.... Sorry to disagree. Composite is a reason. Currently window transparencies and fade in/fade out's don't work very well on ATi cards (at least not in my 9600 mobility pro turbo). If you are an eyecandy freak, an ATi won't work for you right now... though it might work tomorrow.

[Ulokye]

Using a Geforce MX5200 will be updated soon to a 6800.

[Miguel]

Hi Ulokye,

Are you going for a 6800 "plain" or a 6800 GT? I don't know the price difference, but I have heard stories of the 6800 closer to the 660GT (or ultra, the highest 6600) than to the 6800GT.