Having made the decision to grit my teeth and buy a whole new machine, I'm giving a lot of thought to what video card to buy. My current one (which will continue to live with us) has some cheapo SVGA card and uses 3dfx for Quake.
I really like TNT though, and it would be nice to buy a 2D/3D card that at least nominally supports XFree86 (source obfuscation issues aside, I know) AND allows me to play That Game without having to shell out for a separate Voodoo II. Catch is, the Linux Quake HOWTO and its friends all seem to suggest that 3dfx is the only way to get hardware-accelerated Quake (or much else) going. There are hints here and there that Riva were thinking about addressing this issue, but I can't find anything recent. If this is still true, I can't really justify buying a card like this since I don't run Windows on anything so won't get all that lovely 3D stuff. Short form: is it/will it soon become feasible to run hardware-accelerated stuff like Quake[II] with just a TNT card? Or should I just shrug, buy a nice Voodoo II, and pick up a nice 2D card at the same time? -- Joel Gluth <joel-at-n-space-dot-com-dot-au> Software Engineer, N-Space Adelaide. http://www.n-space.com.au "She is honest and kind, but in a way that people see as telling lies and being mean." -- Heavenly
