With the X200 and X300 most games run fine on OSS drivers (albeit not the same performance as FGLRX). While some of these problems are shared by all opensource drivers, Intel's seem to be the worst. The problems with Intel cards are due to an old implementation of OpenGL (1.2 or 1.5 I think, while ATI and NVIDIA have complete 2.1), and it's even incomplete(no S3TC support for example), and they're slower than on Windows, and so on. I got all the games I have, and desktop effects working just fine. The other two, one with ATI, other with nVIDIA, were a dream to set up. (Same experience with another friend with Intel GMA 965) Games that run fine on Wine like Warcraft III, WoW, or Age of Empires could never work. We barely got Compiz going(although glitchy), and only Urban Terror managed to run on it. The games I have for Linux were enough and they loved Compiz. Three friends of mine where at my house once, and they liked Linux so much, they asked me to put it on their laptops.

I wouldn't play games on any Intel card on Linux if my life depended on it. The only slideshow happens when I use the latest builds of the open source driver performance seems to be around 50% across all supported chips compared to what fglrx can provide. With my laptop's 200M I get near identical performance in both Nexuiz and Urban Terror as I do under Windows (800圆00 medium type settings produce very playable results) Alien Arena as well, although that game seems to run **** poor with ATI cards in both Windows and Linux. My machine is a Vostro 1510, with a Core 2 Duo processor running at 1.9 GHz and 2 gigs of ram. I turned the texture quality up to normal, the color depth up to 32bit, and texture filtering to trilinear, and at 1024x768 I started getting framerates between 15FPS and 25FPS.

It's quite playable, as long as you don't mind the low settings. Same settings at 1024x768, and I averaged between 40FPS and 30FPS, though it did spike at 60FPS when I was in smaller areas.

I tested Urban Terror, and with everything turned down at 800圆00, I got about 60FPS. Neither of them are gaming cards, but the ATi ran OpenGL games as slideshows.Īnyway. ATi cards on OpenGL here? Because the Intel x3100 seems to get framerates in OpenGL much closer to those I get in DirectX games running in Windows than my last (admittedly bad) ATi card, the ATi Xpress 200m.

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