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The cards works great with the new ati drivers but there are two certain problems that i dont like , first when a game uses DGA the screen suddenly goes black and the monitor acts as if it was in standby mode , second i tried winex 3.2 but to my bad luck when i tried warcraft 3 it was veryy slow so i checked the forums to find out that problem was the new driver and winx3.2 arent compatible with each other , u could check it out at : http://www.transgaming.com/showthread.php?thread=35295
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $100.00 | Rating: 8
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.11-r5 (Gentoo-sources)
Distribution:
Gentoo
I bought the Sapphire ATI 9600 Pro just to try something different. Yes, i have/had a Nvidia 5900XT installed, but i thought i should give ATI a try - that's right, i couldn't resist, i had to push the little red button. I am using the latest ATI drivers as of April 05, 2005.
I ended up installing gentoo from scratch and using emerge ati-drivers to install it. Lots of xorg.conf problems at first (after running fglrxconfig) but i eventually worked through them.
One note, i found that if i used the agp module provided by ATI, i would ony get 4x AGP. So i had to use the external agp module (amd64-agp in my case) to get the card to go into 8x AGP mode. After that, the card seemed to work fine.
Tested:
UT2004 - 1024x768 # works well
Doom3 - 800x600 # works as well as any card could with that game
NWN - 1600x1200 # works well
True Combat Elite - 1600x1200 # works really well
For the price and the bad rap ATI has been getting, this card seems (so far) to work as expected for a hundered dollar (or 130 CDN) video card. I find the textures and overall view to be more "rich" in colour than nvidia. Just my 2 cents.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 4
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.12
Distribution:
Gentoo
After days of patching trying to get the ATI drivers to compile, the 2d performance was terrible. The 3d performance wasn't one to be proud of either.
Faced with the choice of either slow 2d or extremely-slow 3d, I decided to dump hardware accelerated 3d since I only need to use a 3d application about once every 2 months. I wish I could use eyecandy though.
This driver will be far better once X becomes completely OpenGL based, because ATI won't need to work on the XAA 2d, though they would benifit from trying to release drivers more often and work on the unstable kernels so that the current stable kernel works when the driver is released.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $107.73 | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.11-FC3
Distribution:
Fedora Core 3
I have installed all drivers and i find it a really good card!
I get 1868 FPS with 2 head + TV-OUT-MODE in glxgears.
Without 2 head + TV-OUT-MODE i get 3016 FPS.
And with the installation i have first get some bugs, but then i have installed fglrx and that works just fine.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 3
Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution:
Fedora Core 4
I have no clue what is ATI's problem !!
this card worked wonders with FC3 and doom3 was awsome !! with fc4 nothing works !! glxgears gives me a fps of like 150 !! even though ive installed the ATI proprietry drivers like 5 times. dont know what to do with it, miss my old NVidia FX 5700 :(
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