Graphics Card Recommendation

[Happy Camper]

Hi folks,
I've been playing the 2.X branch happily with my GeForce9500GT (Athlon 7750, 8GB, Ubuntu 10.10, Nvidia driver 260.19.06).
Now I tried the latest master release, and

1. it does not look very good - low contrast, exit points are barely recognizable, some unit color blend with the landscape

and, more important,

2. it is simply not playable in 1680x1050 - well it is to some extent, in XP, but I don't want to reboot each time I play. And issue #1 also holds true for XP.

So my questions are:
Will it look better with a contemporary graphics card?
Which card can you recommend for a good frame rate in Ubuntu?

Thanks in advance

Joe

[macuser]

AFAIK it is not that your card is that slow of a card. I have a gtx 240 1gb and it still is slow for me. The problem is the rendering engine used in the game is rather old and unoptimized.

The best things I can suggest are:

1. Turn off v-sync in options
2. Close other running programs
3. Turn down the texture size to 256

[Per]

I have a far worse graphics card, also Nvidia, and it works fine here, so I do not understand what is causing the slowdown. Vsync on or off does not matter for me.

[macuser]

What card and OS do you have?

[Happy Camper]

I have a far worse graphics card, also Nvidia, and it works fine here, so I do not understand what is causing the slowdown. Vsync on or off does not matter for me.

From the parallel discussion in the master release thread, I was assured that something was wrong with my settings. I deleted the .warzone2100-master directory to start with a fresh config: Hooray! Now it runs as smooth as 2.3.8, and now it also looks great again!
No need for a new graphics card anymore, but thanks to all who answered anyway!

[Buginator]

Hmm, I wonder what setting that was ?
I am guessing texture size ?

p.s, that card should be OK for now.

[Happy Camper]

Hmm, I wonder what setting that was ?
I am guessing texture size ?

No, it must have been a side effect of some kind. In addition to the performance problem, I got weird colors, and the numbers in the rally points were not readable (I posted a screenshot in the masters release thread). Finally, I wasn't able to adjust the screen size in the video options, so I deleted the config directory. If it is of interest for the developers, I can compare the new config with the one from my last backup.

[Safety0ff]

and the numbers in the rally points were not readable (I posted a screenshot in the masters release thread).

This is a known issue, there's a ticket somewhere with a patch which mitigates this issue.