Both nVidia (also nForce) and Ati have released beta versions of their driver packages for Windows Vista, both client and server editions. ActiveWin also has a list of drivers included in Vista beta 1.
Post a Comment
Member since:
2005-07-06
Member since:
2005-06-29
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:---
Member since:---
Member since:2005-07-04
I wish they'd show the same enthusiastic support for Linux...
Nvidia's Linux support rocks. On Ubuntu, I open Synaptic, install nvidia-glx (and nvidia-settings if I want to get the nvidia control panel) and then I change 2 lines in a config file and it is done. Works perfectly. I get just as good performance out of my GeForce FX 5200 on Linux as I do on Windows. America's Army and other such games work perfectly.
On SUSE, theoretically, it should be just as easy, but Novell screwed up the Nvidia install script so you have to do it manually with 9.3 (I'm not the only one who noticed this problem). But Novell is busy killing SCO for us so I'll forgive them :-P
I'm now running CentOS 4.1 (rebuild of RHEL4 Update 1) with the Nvidia drivers manually installed from www.nvidia.com and it still works just as good.
Member since:
---
I'm tired of their stupid proprietary hardware. All their arguments for not releasing the specs for their last gen cards are pure bullshit. And don't get me started on their nforce shit. I'm never doing business with them again until I can run FreeBSD without corrupting my kernel with their proprietary shit. Go ATI, their 9200 cards works perfectly fine on my AMD64 box, with 100% free software.
Member since:2005-07-14
Can you say extremist... I can understand wanting support for what you paid for, but everyone does not believe in open source. In the same way I respect your thoughts on the subject, I respect ATI and nVidia's views on the issue as well.
Maybe one day we would have to use proprietary drivers with our hardware, but now we do. Give it time.
Member since:---
Member since:2005-06-30
Member since:2005-07-07
Member since:
---
Member since:
2005-07-21
Amen to that. For exactly the same reasons, I've bought a Radeon 9250 too. It's the latest video card for which there are specs.
And it doesn't matter whether you "believe in open source" or not. It's about being dependent on a single vender.
We've had that problem with newer ATI cards on amd64, or on ppc; even those who were willing to run non-free software couldn't as ATI hadn't released any drivers and they were on ATI's mercy.
Member since:
2005-06-29
Member since:
2005-07-11
Member since:
---
Member since:---
It's got noting to do with Linux, people come into my shop and buy these cards as well for windows.
Not everyone needs a top spec card to play games, but I have a GeForceFX 5900Ultra and i plays both UT2004 and UT on Linux and it's much better than in Windows fps wise.
Another thing is that nvidia release the linux driver with updated support even before Windows on last release.
Member since:
---
OMG are you a ATI zealot. First of all 9200 series is freaking old !!! When will ATI release specs for the 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, R400+,series of cards or the Radeon Xpress chipset ? Answer NEVER ! So shut it. ATI drivers as everyone knows are half-baked alpha drivers that usually do not work as intended and have broken features. At least I can install and use Nvidia drivers in Linux with very little problems and have them be useful.
Member since:
---
Put down the crack pipe. ATI drivers on windows and linux are tripe pieces of monkey coded turd. I've owned both ATI and Nvidia cards and Nvidia by far has the most stable drivers out on both platforms that work with the lastest versions of their hardware. Every single ATI driver released is either fixing something that was broken in the previous release or introducing a game stoping bug in the drivers in pc game software. Anyone in the know will verify that out side of 2d preformance ATI is a second class card compared to Nvidia's stable and reliable 3d preformance in game.
Member since:
2005-07-06
I've got an Nvidia nForce 4 motherboard which isn't supported even by Windows XP Service Pack 2 - yes, you have to download the drivers from nvidia.com (great, when the nForce 4 onboard ethernet isn't work! Linux dual-boot to the rescue - yep, Linux supports nForce 4 out of the box !).
Looking at that Vista Beta 1 list of drivers, I'm shocked to that *yet again* the nForce 4 still isn't supported "out-of-the-box" and you have to download the drivers from nvidia.com (chicken and egg part 2). Why is that the current and future versions of Windows don't support a common motherboard and yet Linux does?
Of course, I'm guessing that eventually (hopefully Beta 2), Vista will include built-in support for nForce 4 - and maybe we'll see something similar with an XP Service Pack 3, but at this exact moment in time, it's embarrassing for Microsoft and Nvidia that I have to use a rival OS to get the drivers for a popular motherboard...
Member since:
2005-07-07
The problem with the current beta drivers from ATI for Vista are that it's -only- the display drivers. If you're hoping to see any of the pretty glass effects or anything you'll have to wait. Sure, it does what it's promised (accelerate the desktop drawing in 2D mode) but at this point it's a letdown for me. (I have a Radeon 9800XT AGP, if your experiances differ from mine please let me know)
