You bring up an excellent point, but I wouldn't say that most people that use Linux have older hardware. Most people I know that use Linux are the uber geeks that buy fairly new hardare, but overclock and tweak their systems to get the most out of it.
But, I agree, that a lot of the Linux users do not have 3D graphics cards that have excellent Linux support. Currently the only 3D cards with excellent Linux support are nVidia based cards. ATI finally has given in and started writing Linux drivers, but they are way behind in performance/stability that nVidia has.
Old games will work fine with the DRI and ATI drivers, but new games, no way.
If it isn't an nVidia based card, there really isn't much sense in trying to play a 3D game on Linux. Saying that, I would say that less than 40% of the Linux users out there do not have nVidia cards and therefore do not have the ability to play 3D games.
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Re:Need to support Garage Games
Posted by: kgroombr on July 01, 2004 11:06 PMBut, I agree, that a lot of the Linux users do not have 3D graphics cards that have excellent Linux support. Currently the only 3D cards with excellent Linux support are nVidia based cards. ATI finally has given in and started writing Linux drivers, but they are way behind in performance/stability that nVidia has.
Old games will work fine with the DRI and ATI drivers, but new games, no way.
If it isn't an nVidia based card, there really isn't much sense in trying to play a 3D game on Linux. Saying that, I would say that less than 40% of the Linux users out there do not have nVidia cards and therefore do not have the ability to play 3D games.
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