Now I prurchased a 1 gig gigabyte 5870 the other day for future use. I tried it out to see how it went.
driver was catalyst 10-7, had a crack on Windows XP perfomance spectacular. On Linux (debian testing) FGLRX complied OK 3D performance on simple stuff (not a good test for such a card) somewhat better than my 4870 so I regard that as OK. Played DVD's no problems. 2D though particularly drawing the image on the background of the screen very slow, would take around 1/4 of a second. Display is a Samsung 305T 2560x1600.
The video card in the machine was and still is a NVidia GTX 260 Superoverclocked. This works OK.
Is this slow 2D Ok or am I missing something. Important note, does not bother me much at present as drivers for newish cards always take a bit of time to "hit the straps". The card was obtained because by the time the drivers in Linux become really top stuff for a card (other than possibly closed src NVidia) the said card can no longer be purchased.
Blacksmith
driver was catalyst 10-7, had a crack on Windows XP perfomance spectacular. On Linux (debian testing) FGLRX complied OK 3D performance on simple stuff (not a good test for such a card) somewhat better than my 4870 so I regard that as OK. Played DVD's no problems. 2D though particularly drawing the image on the background of the screen very slow, would take around 1/4 of a second. Display is a Samsung 305T 2560x1600.
The video card in the machine was and still is a NVidia GTX 260 Superoverclocked. This works OK.
Is this slow 2D Ok or am I missing something. Important note, does not bother me much at present as drivers for newish cards always take a bit of time to "hit the straps". The card was obtained because by the time the drivers in Linux become really top stuff for a card (other than possibly closed src NVidia) the said card can no longer be purchased.
Blacksmith
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