I'm not that big of a gamer, but I really got addicted to those desktop effects. Sauerbraten totally rocks in the final version, and I might get some "new" linux games. It's mainly for the beryl desktop stuff though.

I've got an AGP slot. I currently have a Nvidia GF5200-fx in there. I get hangs with quake3 (linux binary) - I don't get any hangs on windows though... Oh, I get the same hangs with glxgears - and an inconstant framerate (500-1000). This should be fixable, but It wasn't worth the effort for me, since I don't play much anyway.

Beryl is kind of sluggish, fullscreen video lags a bit, and I get artifacts on some windows - again, I hope there is a card that is well supported. - If you got it working with your card - please post!
My friends suggested the Nvidia 7600GS. Which is about my price range (~100)... The computer store around the corner (which I trust) carries it - so if that one works, that would be great.
And it shouldn't be too power hungry since it will be idle most of the time (gpu scaling?).

Thanks in advance.

Beryl itself causes the sluggishness. I upgraded from an onboard 6100 to PCI-E 7600 thinking same thing but it made no diff. Bottom line: if you want to play 3D/video turn off desktop effects.

I just saw, I can get a 7600GT for 130€... That seems to be a good deal.
Well... if beryl is the problem - too bad. I hope they'll get it together.
I want to be Feisty-ready by April
I also want to have a little gaming power. I've always been 5 years back on computer hardware, and I'm perfectly happy with my 1.8ghz Sempron... But I have some money to spend, and Sauerbraten (check it out!), Quake 4 and Beryl (hopefully) provide a good reason to do it.
Compiz worked much better on suse 10.1 for me... And a friend who has the 7600gs (pci-e) got compiz running pretty impressively with that gentoo live cd.
I'm not going back to suse - the beryl people will prevail!

I'm going to do something stupid. I was going to wait another week for comments, but screw it. I got the day off - I'll get it now and report back how it worked... Before I get all rational and spend the money on something useful.

I've been happy with my XFX 7600GS FWIW. As for the desktop effects, seems to me they could shut that stuff off when you're running a full screen 3D app in the foreground.

Just checking back to say the 7600GT is very well supported.
Somehow I managed to fry my dapper installation - see this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=529238

I installed edgy on another drive, and I've got it set up half way already, so I'm going to stick with it.
Beryl works very solid with all imaginable effects activated... well I had to do a hard reset after running gooleearth, sauerbraten and enemiterritory, each on a different side of the cube... I was asking for it
Youtube-videos are a bit more jerky on beryl... but they don't work perfectly performence-wise on Metalicity eighter... Same with windows - my cpu goes up to 100% on fullscreen.
I now have a transparent cube, which is much more useful than I thought. I can see a status bar through the cube on another side, I can find windows even faster...

I'm looking forward to the stable version. If this should work out of the box in a couple of months, without any manual configurations I think I can suck some people into dualbooting with linux.