[ltp] Re: R Series

[Marc Saric]

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linux-thinkpad-request@linux-thinkpad.org wrote:

| When you say the 3D acceleration isn't that great, are you talking of
|  XFree's support, or the hardware itself? I do plan on running some
| games occasionally in XP (dual boot), but I'm not a really serious
| gamer. If it will run, say, UT2003 at 800x600 at 30+ FPS, then that
| will be fine with me.

It's the hardware itself. A Mobility Radeon 7500 isn't really a fast
chip anymore (although it has been rated as such 1,5 years ago, see
http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20020220/index.html). It has been
released in 2001, literaly 4 generations behind the current state of the
art (which you need to play UT2003 with a decent setup (IMHO the name of
the game hints to what age the graphics-card should be: around 2003...).

I don't know wether all functions are supported with the XFree86
radeon-driver (especially the T&L-unit), but as there is no other option
(beside buying a commercial X-server, like from Xig), you have no
choice. And the chip is to slow for (modern) gaming anyway.

- --
Bye,
Marc Saric http://www.marcsaric.de
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