I'm running an ASUS Extreme N6200GE/TD/128M (<a href="http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=363&l1=2&l2=6&l3=140">specs here</a>). My card is PCI-Express and it works great. Since you're running on older hardware, you'll probably need an AGP card. ASUS makes a version of the N6200 in AGP (
<a href="http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=484&l1=2&l2=7&l3=155">specs here</a>). These cards are usually in the area of $60 CAD - $90 CAD. All of my video output runs over an S-Video cable.
<br><br>On my card, I'm running the NVIDIA binary drivers, version 1.0-8762. OpenGL works great, video playback is nice and smooth and the different video game emulators run just fine. DVD and Xvid/DivX playback works great as well.
<br><br>For the the mythgame emulators, I'm using the following:<br><br>FCEU for NES<br>ZSNES for SNES<br>VisualBoyAdvance for Gameboy Advance<br><br>You can read about all of these on the wiki: <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythGameEmulationSetup">
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythGameEmulationSetup</a><br><br>The only problem I ran into was when I tried to set up Snes9x. The new NVIDIA drivers no longer support the DGA extensions in X, and Snes9x uses DGA to run full-screen. ZSNES, on the other hand, uses SDL and works great. You might have a bit more of a performance issue with the game emulators, since they do require a bit of CPU horsepower to run. My machine is a P4
2.66 GHz and runs at about 50% - 60% cpu load when playing some of the SNES and Gameboy Advance games.<br><br>- Joe<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">sdkovacs</b> <<a href="mailto:sdkovacs@gmail.com">
sdkovacs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all,<br><br>I'm running a combined frontend/backend On Fedora Core 3 with a P3-800
<br>384MB RAM. I'm currently using a PVR350 for all output, but would like<br>to switch to an Nvidia card to better support DVD, mythgame and<br>mythvideo, along with the upcoming OpenGL changes.<br>So here are my questions:
<br><br>1) Which Nvidia card would be the minimum I would need to have smooth playback?<br>2) Does it make a difference which manufacturer's card I purchase? For<br>example is eVGA ok?<br><br><br>Thanks in advance.<br>_______________________________________________
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