What video card do you own?

I have an ATI Radeon Xpress 1150, it's an integrated PCI-E card (I have a laptop) with 128 MB of dedicated memory plus another 128 MB shared. I only use it in order to display the nice effects on Linux.

 

Mines old and crappy now, although I can still play almost all games with okay settings. It's a GeForce 6600, which I use to play games (although not too many new ones, I'm waiting for Crysis, which I might still be okay to play with this card - right now I just play a lot of Half-Life 2).

 

I have a GeForce 6150 mobile, which is an integrated card used in notebooks as far as I know. Back at home in my gaming rig PC, I have an ATI Radeon X850XT, which totally rocks. It runs Oblivion like a charm.

 

I don't do the heavy gaming like I used to, so I've only got a GeForce 6200. Well, now that I think of it, I don't do much of any PC gaming at all.

 

When I found that, I was so glad. Minimum spec might be terrible though... I remember playing World of Warcraft on my friend's PC who had only 512mb RAM (I think it was minimum, or slightly above), and wow did that suck. I had to log on his account to take him through crowded cities and such. Video card != RAM, though, so I guess it might not be so bad... but I wanna see the pretty graphics

 

I have the one that is built into the laptop, which according to Device Manager is "Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset Family". It's fine for what I do with Windows (which is not gaming or anything exacting) and it works fine with Beryl in PCLinuxOS too.

 

Intel graphics cards have the advantage of perfect integration with Linux but they are not as powerful as ATI or Nvidia cards.

I've had lots of problems with this one on Linux, the damn proprietary driver fglrx sucks... It's impossible to make it work properly with Ubuntu, for example. I'm now in the process of downloading Fedora 7, maybe it works better with that one. If it doesn't I'll just wait for openSUSE 10.3.

 

How much did you pay for it? I'm assuming you're pretty happy with it?

 

It's definitely not a gaming graphics system, but then it's not a gaming laptop. For normal Windows stuff (which is what I do) it's fine though.

 

This is not a gaming laptop either - the only game I've ever played here is The Sims 2 and now I don't play that...

Maybe if I had a desktop computer. But I'm not used to gaming and I can't afford the computer nor the games, so I don't think that is going to happen...

 

I have an NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS. It's pretty sweet I must say.

 

Markie likes gaming, but he decided long ago that the best machine for gaming is a games console, not a PC. He currently has a Wii which he uses a lot and a PS2 which is still packed in a box somewhere.

 

Markie sounds like a gay version of my dad. He has lost all hope with gaming though - I don't let him anywhere near my computer (now I don't have to enforce the policy - he wouldn't touch it because he knows that I have gay porn here, lol)

I am pissed at the moment. Why the guys at ATI/AMD don't release a decent driver for Linux? So far it only works on openSUSE (I tried it on Fedora 7 and Ubuntu, without success). The new driver seems to work right with openSUSE (and openSUSE only) though.

 

I am a total gamer. I have an Xbox 360, a Playstation 3, a Wii, a PSP, and of course my awesome PC.

>_>

Sorry I'm proud.

 

AMD pledged a usable OSS driver. But i dont know what the release time is. So annoying... Which is why i stick to nVidia. (the best one i have has 128mb of video ram) But I dont game.:icon_wink

 

Paul the young, I would use nVidia if I could change my graphics card - but this one is a laptop and it was a gift so I'm stuck with ATI/AMD.