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EA and NVIDIA in Alliance

Posted by michael on from the unholy-pair dept.

Deepak Jois writes "Arstechnica is reporting that EA and NVIDIA have entered into a pact to promote each other. Among other things it also means EA will support games on all PC platforms featuring NVIDIA hardware. Also check this link to the press release."

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  1. ALL platforms? by SixArmedJesus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if they're just talking about hardware platforms, or software as well. Does this mean some good games getting released for Linux?

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    *slight crashing sound*
    1. Re:ALL platforms? by grolim13 · · Score: 4, Interesting
      In my experience, it depends a lot on the card in question; also, some of the more recent Linux drivers are more stable than others.

      I have a Geforce 4MX and a TNT2 on my machine (i.e. dual-head), and ran the Geforce4 with the NVIDIA closed-source binary drivers and the TNT2 with the XFree drivers. Why? Because the system locks hard every few hours with the NVIDIA drivers for the TNT2. Interestingly, it has exactly the same symptoms in Win2K - if I hadn't been using Linux on the same system, I would probably be blaming Microsoft for NVIDIA's buggy drivers.

      On the other hand, getting the NVIDIA drivers to work at all is a pain. In fact, getting working drivers for any hardware that isn't supported by the stock kernel is a pain.