Um, they don't need to whip their driver team into shape just for linux. They need to start with windoz. I finally ripped my 9700 out of my Win2k box after a month of grief, and am happy as a clam with the Asus Geforce3 Ti5 card that was in there before. (It was supposed to move to my 2nd box to make it game-worthy, but I'd rather have a working primary than 2ndary box...)
With the Ti5 in, I'm not locking up on a regular basis as I was with the 9700. UT2k3 runs MUCH better, and is substantially more stable. I had to turn all my graphics down a notch, but with that I'm getting higher frame rates than with the 9700.
Now NWN doesn't quit and leave my screen solid black until I maximize a window and compress and expand the task bar to refresh every square inch of video memory, and when I boot the windows startup screens aren't compressed and misshapen.
For the moment, I'm giving up on the 9700 until AIT gets off their asses and releases some useful, stable drivers. Hell, with the Ti5 I can actually see fog in UT2k3, which was never rendered with the 9700.
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Um, they don't need to whip their driver team into shape just for linux. They need to start with windoz. I finally ripped my 9700 out of my Win2k box after a month of grief, and am happy as a clam with the Asus Geforce3 Ti5 card that was in there before. (It was supposed to move to my 2nd box to make it game-worthy, but I'd rather have a working primary than 2ndary box...)
With the Ti5 in, I'm not locking up on a regular basis as I was with the 9700. UT2k3 runs MUCH better, and is substantially more stable. I had to turn all my graphics down a notch, but with that I'm getting higher frame rates than with the 9700.
Now NWN doesn't quit and leave my screen solid black until I maximize a window and compress and expand the task bar to refresh every square inch of video memory, and when I boot the windows startup screens aren't compressed and misshapen.
For the moment, I'm giving up on the 9700 until AIT gets off their asses and releases some useful, stable drivers. Hell, with the Ti5 I can actually see fog in UT2k3, which was never rendered with the 9700.