AppDB video card data

[raaf]

There is a lot of useful information in the AppDB but one thing I miss is video card data, this especially important for games.

The rumor goes that wine works better with Nvidia cards, I don't know if there's any statistical data to back that up. Might be that the number of bug reports give an indication. But if a game works without problems you wouldn't find a bug report. Adding video card data to the AppDB can give a better idea whether a particular game has been known to work with your video card.

I think it would be useful to add a video card option to the test results section of the AppDB, where one can choose what video card or which driver one is using.

[Daemon]

Good idea. Some people put their card info in the extras comments. From what I've read and seen Nvidia has better OpenGL Linux support and hence you get better results in Wine. I'm biased though.

[Thunderbird]

The reason Nvidia works better s that their opengl drivers are better both in terms of performance, stability and rendering bugs. E.g. fglrx still isn't that stable and has rendering issues with fbo's/glsl and other modern gl features. Most open source drivers lack good glsl support and other features which are needed for sm3.0.