Which graphics card good for tuxracer ?

[Vialli]

Hey, what graphics card do you have to run tuxracer smoothly?

I want to buy a right one.

If any onboard chipset is okay and run it fast too, that will be fine.

[steve301]

I would say anything that has support for 3d gaming like ati or nvidia's cards would work, you can get least exspensive for around 85 us bucks for ati cards and same for geforce3 ti500 from pricewatch.com, there is cheaper so look around check it out.

:p

[redcape]

NVidia and ATI both support Linux well. NVidia is considered to have slightly better drivers, but ATI have been more supportive of the open source community.

[Hubbe]

tux racer isn't a problem to run :) using an old pIII 450 with tnt2 32meg and it runs it smothly with 4349 nvidia drivers

[shuzi]

Tux Racer doesn't require any major hardware requirements. It runs just fine with my old pIII 450 with tnt 16meg with 4349 nvidia drivers

although i'm not getting any sound. :(

[Vialli]

For my curiosity, anyone get a non-nvidia and non-radeon card to run tuxracer smoothly?

Do anyone run it fine with just onboard display chipset?

[Vm.]

Originally posted by Vialli
For my curiosity, anyone get a non-nvidia and non-radeon card to run tuxracer smoothly?

Do anyone run it fine with just onboard display chipset?

In my old PC (sold it off a few months ago) I had intel 810c chipset mother board (with onboard gfxcard) and it worked very nicely with that. However, I upgraded from RHL 7.3 to 8.0 and then the game became very sluggish.

[LrngTheHardWay]

It works without problem on a Matrox G550.

[MartinB]

Works great on my 16MB Voodoo 3 3000. In fact, most OpenGL games work smoothly on this in Linux, even stuff under WineX. I still want to upgrade though, since I'm restricted to 16-bit colour on this card.

[andysimmons]

Tuxracer is nothing...If you're looking for a good graphics card then you might ask what card can run UT2003 at hi-res with eyecandy. I bet I could get tuxracer running on an old 8088 and pull at least 30 fps.

[deity_me]

Is it just me or anyone else having a problem with TuxRacer

i have 2 computers a desk top
P3 750MHz 512MB
nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 64MB
RedHat 8

and a Laptop
Athlon XP 1800 (1.53GHz) 256MB
nVidia GeForce4 Go420 32MB
RedHat9

and on both systems
TuxRacer runs sooooo slow
its like one of my badly written openGL assignments where it just ate up the CPU power of my school server.

anyways is there anything i should be doing to optimize my system so TuxRacer runs smoothly?

[andysimmons]

Did you install the NVidia drivers and adjust your XF86Config file accordingly?

[Mnemonic]

I have an ATI Radeon 7000 that works fine with Tuxracer.

[viperlin]

i've noticed that tuxracer does not like 24bit colour (this is with my old graphics card, Voodoo 3 3000)

make sure you are in 16 bit colour and try again.

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by rid3r
let's change the subject a bit, post the FPS you get with glxgears. That's my ATI Radeon 7500:
[nabis@trinity:nabis]$ glxgears
1455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 291.000 FPS
1600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 320.000 FPS
1600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 320.000 FPS
1680 frames in 5.0 seconds = 336.000 FPS
1600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 320.000 FPS
1600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 320.000 FPS glxgears is not a good benchmark of your 3D card performance. Not in the least.

It is FAR too CPU-bound to be testing the graphics card.

Originally posted by viperlin
i've noticed that tuxracer does not like 24bit colour (this is with my old graphics card, Voodoo 3 3000)

make sure you are in 16 bit colour and try again. That's only needed with Voodoo cards. nVidia cards actually work a very little bit better in 24-bit color mode than 16. But 3D definitely works in 24-bit mode.

[Exodus2001]

My Voodoo 4 (32mb) plays just fine. Tux Racer works as well as it would with any video card. The reason I like this Voodoo card so much is because every distro I have ever installed enables 3D without any tinkering or installing drivers. In windows I can play games like Mist and it works just fine. If your on a budget it seems like a pretty good card that works with Linux really well. When I built my new computer I didn't see any reason to waste money on another video card because this one still works.

I found this used one for $35 in about two minutes.

http://www.bizrate.com/

[serz]

Nvdia cards works fine :)
I'm using Nvidia 32mb m64.

[janet loves bill]

Originally posted by rid3r
let's change the subject a bit, post the FPS you get with glxgears. That's my ATI Radeon 7500:

1455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 291.000 FPS
1600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 320.000 FPS
1600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 320.000 FPS
1680 frames in 5.0 seconds = 336.000 FPS
1600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 320.000 FPS
1600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 320.000 FPS

he he, something is not right, I have a P3 850 mhz, with anihilator2 32meg, 5.1 SB live,
I avg 2500 fps while playing Tux racer...........this is @ 24 bit Res