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Overall rating: 5.0 x 4

By Linux distribution:

• Mandriva Linux 2007.1 i586: 5.0 x 2
• Mandriva Linux 2008.1 i586: 5.0 x 2

Working video cards in 3D on Mandriva Linux 2007.1 i586 (kernel: 2.6.17-14mdv) by liberforce (5):

I used to play Neverwinter Nights out of the box. Hangs a bit sometimes on high resolution with the free driver, but it’s overall good for small games. But as it’s a bit too sluggish for good game experience, I had to switch to the proprietary drivers.

Note that the proprietary ATI drivers shipped with Mandriva 2007.1 are buggy (ATI’s fault). ATI drivers have a bug that prevents them from supporting custom modelines. I had to remove the custom modelines from my xorg.conf.

Neverwinter Nights now works like a charm with the proprietary drivers (but don’t use Xgl/AIGLX, it will only be supported but proprietary drivers starting with 8.42.x release.

See http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=160 and http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30934 for the custom modelines bug.

• MS-6570
• MS-6570