Greetings list, I will make this short. Basically, I am fed up with my Radeon video card. Driver support from ATi sucks, I can hardly play America's Army or Neverwinter Nights. When I can play them, I am stuck with very low quality compatibility textures. I have tried several dri-trunk packages (both specifically for Debian and manually compiled) with and without the available S3TC patches. None have worked, ranging from non-functional X to locking up when trying to play one of the games. To top it all off, for the longest time I have been getting artifacts--in the way of garbled text characters on the console and BIOS setup screens and lots of random blue or red pixels in any graphical environment. This is most aggravating. What I would like to do is get an nVidia card. Partly because I am sick of ATi, and partly because my nForce2 motherboard will hopefully be a bit more compatible with the nVidia card than it has been with the ATi card. I would like to hear what models and brands of nVidia cards the list members use and what their experiences with those have been. My card is a Radeon 9000 Pro 128 MB that cost US$ 85 in July '03. I am looking for something with comparable or better performance in the sub-$100 range. I guess this turned out a bit longer than I expected. Thanks in advance for the insights and recommendations. -Roberto Sanchez
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