AGP graphics card. With stock XF86Config, Redhat 8.0, nvidia IA32 driver I get ~7300 frames/second in glxgears. Tuxracer at 1600x1200, 24M colors on 21" screen give ~330 fps, all eye candy options enable in tuxracer.
For some reason, after using Tuxracer, the screensaver will not kick in. Manually workaround by 'testing' screensave and it works again. Have not investigated why, probably an easy fix out there. Usually just turn off monitor when not at desk anyway. No other problems encountered. Absolutely awesome performance.
Will update when I attempt another distro. Did not try IA64 driver, just IA32. Installed without a hitch
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $180.00 | Rating: 8
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.1-gentoo
Distribution:
Gentoo
The nv driver doesn't work at all, which makes graphical installations impossible beacuse they always try to use it. I also get some dark grey spots in games sometimes.
Apart from that, a good card (and now it works with nvidia's xvidix :))
Would you recommend the product? | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.21-99-default
Distribution:
Suse 9.0 Professional
Flawless operation in Suse 9.0 Professional. Detect and configured correctly with the 2D drivers included. Yast to get the nvidia driver, and about 100 seconds later, 3D driver installed.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.22-10mdk
Distribution:
Mandrake 9.2
Works great, nice in UT2K4demo.
Installation is easy once you've done it before :)
one problem: TuxRacer. when i launch the monitor goes black and comes up with a message saying "Input not supported" i think its going into too high resolution or refresh rate
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
20.4.20-20.9
Distribution:
RH9
Works great in tuxracer, easy to install drivers and all, but ut2k4 doesn't work very fast... it's more like looking at a slideshow even ln the lowest possible preferences. I have a slow processor, but it works fine in winblows XP... Anyone have a cure? PM me.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $60.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.6
Distribution:
Arch Linux 0.6
100% Compatible, works flawlessly in games like UT / UT2003 / UT2004 and America's Army, Wolfenstein ET and offcourse good old tuxracer. One thing I do not understand is the `lspci` output though:
It _IS_ a NVIDIA Geforce 4Ti4200 w/ 64MB DDR. It's the A-open one, could it be that the modded something in the cards bios or something ? Apart from that, it works very good.
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 2
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.7
Distribution:
Slackware 9.1
TERRIBLE waste of time with this card. Installation of the NVIDIA driver seemed flawless, yet upon "startx", the entire system goes into a freeze. I can't CTRL-ALT-Backspace my way out of X, and the monitor loses the signal with the video card. Tried almost everything, including alternate drivers, different X configurations. No one on IRC or on the forums (including nV News) could help me, and there are a lot of us that have this exact problem. Apparently, this card hasn't been compatible for over a year now; I'm sending it back and if my next NVIDIA card gives me the same problems, NVIDIA just lost my business.
EDIT: Forgot to mention: NVIDIA won't reply to any of my emails. Talk about support.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.3-7mdk
Distribution:
Mandrake 10.0 Community
After you get the driver installation and config right (which can involve quite a lot of tweaking your XF86Config file), this card blazes on any reasonably modern system.
I can run Unreal Tournament 2004 at 1600x1200 on an AMD AthlonXP 2100+ (1733 MHz) and 512MB DDR Ram system without any hitches whatsoever.
Only issue: the driver isn't exactly the most stable piece of software I've ever seen. It will occasionally put my machine into Helen Keller Mode (no input or output, but no crash) that is impossible to get out of, but this happens VERY infrequently, and each of nVidia's upgraded drivers does this a little less often.
About the previous poster: that's an accurate description of the problem, except that a properly-configured system shouldn't do that even nearly that often. Perhaps the driver doesn't like your kernel? (2.6.7 is pretty new... dunno.)
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