need nVidia card suggestions

Vindane · 05-10-2006, 02:28 PM

I'm going to Best Buy tonight to buy an nVidia card and need some suggestions please. The price range I'd like to stick to is around $100.
The features I'm looking for is AGP, able to play games like Neverwinter Nights, Quake, etc., able to run on Fedora Core 5.

Anyone have any good experiences with certain cards?

Thanks!

Xolo · 05-10-2006, 03:50 PM

It's not so much the card that will give you problems, it will be the proprietary driver from nVidia that will give you problems.
At least that's what the buzz is. For you to get 3D Acceleration going with your card, you'll need to obtain the Linux driver from nVidia and compile it yourself and possibly mess with the kernel as well.
Please search the forum for others who've done so already.

I'm currently using a Geforce 4 Ti4200 / 128MB AGP 8X graphics card, I know it functions in Linux, but i've yet to try the 'real' driver.

dukeinlondon · 05-10-2006, 05:12 PM

I don't know about fedora but I doubt it's much harder than in SUSE to install the nvidia driver. In SUSE it's more than easy.

Anyway, the gforce6 range has plenty of models in your price range and should work fine.

ioerror · 05-10-2006, 06:29 PM

Installing the nvidia driver is probably about as easy as it's going to get with binary drivers. The whole thing is automated, you don't really need to do anything manually, just run the installer and select Yes/OK a few times. Well, you might need to edit xorg.conf and change the nv driver to nvidia, but apparently the installer can do that for you now (though I wouldn't know, there's no way I'd let some install script fiddle with my config files). Bloated, sorry, "user-friendly", distros like Suse/Fedora can probably install it for you anyway, as dukeinlondon appears to suggest.

Thus, the particular model you choose doesn't really matter much as far as compatibility is concerned, since they all use the same driver. So, basically, just get the best card you can for your budget.

Penguin of Wonder · 05-10-2006, 06:35 PM

As long as its from atleast the 5 series it'll probably be fine for any of those. I'm running a 6200 GeForce AGP. I love it. In my honest opinion there's no need to spend over a hundred dollars on a graphics card unless you just have to have the best of the best. Most users don't. Quake and NWN are both on the "old" side of games anyway, they won't take much power to run. I can run QuakeII on a 32M TNT2 Pro, and thats at a decent resolution too like 1200x800 or somehthing.