Since I replaced my Xpert2000 with a GF2Mx400 years ago, I am a nvidia user. My fifth card is a 8600GT and while the 3d performance is great - the 2d performance in the KDE 4.1-prereleases is not. I am thinking about buying an ATI card for a while. Even before I bought the 8600 - but nvidia's drivers always worked very well for me - until now. Even watching videos sucks
So I have several questions:
how good are the frglx drivers really? I read the phoronix articles but I always felt that there is a big pro-ati bias. How feature complete to nvidia? Xv? 2d performance? How troublesome are they? What about 3d? I like ut2004 and vegastrike. I don't care about wine or compiz but I do care about reasonable 2d speed.
What about the radeon/radeonhd drivers? 2d? 3d? Support of the 3850? From the stuff I read the radeonhd driver does not even does 2d acceleration, correct? What about the radeon driver?
What about bugs? Years ago, my Xpert2000 locked my box up when I
-watched tv, lockup some hours later.
-used videotext, lockup some hours later.
-moved a video window at the wrong moment or in the wrong direction.
-switch to vt? 10% of lockup.
etc pp
(and yes, that were problems with open drivers ...)
What is the status of the three ati drivers today, how stable are they? What about screen corruption?
I am feeling lost. And I would welcome some advise before I buy a card that might perform even worse than the current one.
So I have several questions:
how good are the frglx drivers really? I read the phoronix articles but I always felt that there is a big pro-ati bias. How feature complete to nvidia? Xv? 2d performance? How troublesome are they? What about 3d? I like ut2004 and vegastrike. I don't care about wine or compiz but I do care about reasonable 2d speed.
What about the radeon/radeonhd drivers? 2d? 3d? Support of the 3850? From the stuff I read the radeonhd driver does not even does 2d acceleration, correct? What about the radeon driver?
What about bugs? Years ago, my Xpert2000 locked my box up when I
-watched tv, lockup some hours later.
-used videotext, lockup some hours later.
-moved a video window at the wrong moment or in the wrong direction.
-switch to vt? 10% of lockup.
etc pp
(and yes, that were problems with open drivers ...)
What is the status of the three ati drivers today, how stable are they? What about screen corruption?
I am feeling lost. And I would welcome some advise before I buy a card that might perform even worse than the current one.
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