On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:08, Anders Dahlgren wrote: > I've seen somewhere that Nvidia claims it's because of patent issues. > > If you, in this case, don't care about if the driver is open or closed > source. Which one is the superior in Linux? ATI or Nvidia? Well, IMO ATi has the superior TV out and 2d quality. I personally prefer NVidia's AF though because it looks good at *all* angles, and ATi's AF algorithm completely breaks at certain angles. Or in another words, ATi's only looks really good in FPS. NVidia's looks decent no matter the application. I also like ATi's hardware better generally, with the exception of the 9x00 series which for some reason they chose to only have 96-bit precision instead of 128-bit precision like NVidia's FX. I do like ATi's FSAA better as well though. Now drivers, that's where it falls apart for me, ATi's OpenGL drivers have always left much to be desired, Windows or Linux. Especially the Linux drivers at the moment. NVidia's OpenGL drivers on the other hand almost always work as I expect them to. To me NVidia definitely has the upper hand in the Linux driver department at the moment as far as OpenGL support goes. However, *both* ATi and NVidia do not support the Linux drivers as well as the support their Windows ones. Both of them do not support all of the things they do in their Windows drivers that they do in their Linux drivers. (Certain OpenGL extensions, lack of a control panel, etc...) Just my worthless 2 cents, -- Shawn <drevil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.warpcore.org/
