Favorite graphics board

[mike ledoux]

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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:

>What are the current favorites for graphics boards?

Anything with a nVidia GeForce 2 or 3 chip in it is pretty good, and
works well with both Windows and Linux.

>I recently bought a Nividia GeForce MX200 (about $95) so I could run
>FlightGear (which requires hardware OpenGL support).  But we do run games on
>MS Windows on the same machine, and several other games my son plays stopped
>working (despite installation of the most recent drivers and DirectX).

I've never had good luck switching video drivers under Windows without
a reinstall.  The one time I managed to make it work, I had to
uninstall all the old drivers, set everything back to 'standard VGA',
reboot, hang, reboot, detect new hardware, reboot, hang, reboot
download & install the latest drivers, reboot, download & install the
latest DirectX, reboot, reboot.  At that point I could run most games
again.  The next weekend, I wiped the windows partition clean and
reinstalled.

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