> gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > My coworker is also an nvidia enthusiast, First, let's make this clear: I'm not an Nvidia enthusiast. Everywhere, I read that AMD was supporting OpenSource as much as it could, but it also seemed that, generally, NVIDIA drivers worked better. Anyways, that was teh opinion of the store I dealt with. They didn't mind if I installed Linux but it would have been harder to bring back the video card saying "This and that doesn't work" if i had chosen the one they didn't suggest. > OTOH, I've had the worst time while trying nvidia proprietary driver Everything works fine so far with my Asus EN9400GT: reading movie DVDs, Flash, WMV, etc. I didn't experience a shade of a glitch. >> I've installed Compiz, but are there other uses for 3D ? If not, if one >> doesn't care about Compiz, I understand that Frank Cox says he had no >> problem whatsoever with his ATI cards. >> > > Yes - many games use 3D :) My card certainly isn't a gamer's card. I made very clear when I bought it that I didn't want to pay a cent more for a gamer's card. I said I would be editing video, though, not professionally, just to see what software video editing looks like. (Hence my question atop about LiVES.) > Some media players can also use 3D acceleration to render video -- this > could give you very nice features like antialiasing/deinterlacing/etc > with low cpu overhead >From what I read, compared to the ATI HD4550, my card asks more from the CPU. The CPU being an AMD X3 7200, it doesn't make any difference: it sleeps all the time. Whether this will be the same for video editing or if the HD4550 would do better, I don't know. But, until AMD/Fedora come with more up-to-date 3D drivers, I suppose the salesman was right. If those Radeon drivers ever come out -- I have the impression that similar stories have been going on for years -- AMD/ATI will have an edge. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
