Radeon 4800 or Ati in general viable for wine?

[Zaxth]

Longtime lurker and user of wine, finally had a question there was no ready answer to so decided to register
I'm about to replace my old nvidia card with a newer model and seeing as Ati is open sourcing their drivers. I was wondering if I should get a 4800 card, but only if the fglrx or x86-radeon driver is up to the task
Like can it run direct3d 9 games like Eve?
How about 2d performance in games like fallout 2 and planescape torment?

[austin987]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Zaxth <[email protected]> wrote:

Longtime lurker and user of wine, but I'm about to replace my old nvidia card with a newer model and seeing as Ati is open sourcing their drivers. I was wondering if I should get a 4800 card, but only if the fglrx or x86-radeon driver is up to the task
Like can it run direct3d 9 games like Eve?
How about 2d performance in games like fallout 2 and planescape torment?

ATI drivers are still crappy. Give them a couple years and that may
change, but Nvidia is still ahead.


--
-Austin

[M.Kiesel]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Zaxth wrote:

Longtime lurker and user of wine, but I'm about to replace my old nvidia
card with a newer model and seeing as Ati is open sourcing their
drivers. I was wondering if I should get a 4800 card, but only if the
fglrx or x86-radeon driver is up to the task Like can it run direct3d
9 games like Eve? How about 2d performance in games like fallout 2 and
planescape torment?

I also wanted to give ATI a try in December 2008 but I really can't
recommend ATI/fglrx neither for Wine nor Linux in general.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emu ... user/36804
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a96989f ... 7f6bcfd16f
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthre ... #post55326
(try to spot someone in the forums with a good opinion about fglrx!)

Regards

[Zaxth]

Thanks alot for your replies, I will buy another Nvidia card then. I can't live without my occasional Fallout, PS:T or Jagged Alliance fix