Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)

Posted Jul 11, 2008 14:50 UTC (Fri) by anton (subscriber, #25547)
In reply to: Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews) by alankila
Parent article: Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)

So, do we have open drivers that work perfectly in Linux (compiz, 3D games like UT2007, etc.) and play the latest crop of games in Windows at the same time?

I have been using ATI R2xx-R4xx cards with free drivers for quite some time; currently I am using an X850XT (R480). I have played a bit with Compiz (from some Knoppix Live CD) for a while, and it worked nicely. I have also played UT2004 and it works acceptably (at about half the frame rate of Windows) on cards with 256MB, but on a few levels there are graphics errors; I expect that these are fixed in newer versions of the driver (I am using Debian Etch, i.e., somewhat oldish). Concerning UT3 (there is no UT2007), I have not tried it. More interestingly, you may also want to run free games: for (at least) FlightGear you need to do some additional setup stuff to make it playable.