Development:Video Card Compatibility
This is for the current Vega Strike SVN version >= 11520, and all 0.5.0 Beta snapshots.
Make sure to at least look at your ship in external view mode ('6') and compare with
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/devblog/?p=22
Then fly in spec to serenity mining base...and take a mission there...
Video Card List
Vendor | Card | OS+processor | Ram+swap | Functional | Shaders Supported | Driver | Username+caveats |
nVidia | GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB | Windows XP Pro + Intel e6600 @ 3.1GHz | 2G+4G | Yes | All settings maxed | ForceWare 163.75 | Dihydrogen |
nVidia | GeForce 8600 GTS pcie-x16 (256MB) | Ubuntu 2.6.22.1+x86_64 | 4G+1G | Yes | Bump Mapping (All?) | 100.14.11 | ace123 |
nVidia | GeForce 7900 GS 256MB PCIE-X16 | Windows Vista 32 AMD4400(AMD64X2@2.38GHz) | 2G+2G | Yes | Bump Mapping + Fallback | ForceWare 169.25 | Seth H |
nVidia | GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB | Windows XP Pro + AMD4800(AMD64X2@2.4GHz) | 2G+2G | Yes | Bump Mapping + ? (Fallback not tested) | ForceWare 162.18 | jackS |
nVidia | GeForce 6800 GT 128MB | Ubuntu 2.6.22.1+x86_64 | 2G+2G | Yes | Bump Mapping + Fallback | 100.14.11 | hellcatv |
nVidia | GeForce 6600 pcie-x16 (256MB) | Debian Unstable amd64 (2.6.23-rc3 smp preempt) | 2G+0byte | Yes | Bump Mapping | 100.14.11 | safemode |
nVidia | GeForce 6600 GT 128MB | SuSE 10.1 (2.6.16.27-0.9-smp-x86, P4-3G) | 2G+512M | Yes | Bump Mapping + Fallback | 1.0-9746 | klauss |
nVidia | GeForce 6200 TC 64MB (GPU/RAM clock : 420/621mhz (DDR)) | Debian Lenny (2.6.21-2-k7, X2 3800+ (Manchester) @ 2.70Ghz) | 2G+0 | Yes | All settings at highest | 100.14.11 patched to run on a 2.6.21 kernel | Kalessin, The game is not always smooth with this crappy graphic card |
ATI | Radeon X1400 Mobility | gentoo ~x86 Intel Core Duo 2GHz | 2G+4G | Yes | Bump Mapping (all?), Fallback not tested | 8.41.7 | winthrowe |
ATI | Radeon X1400 Mobility | gentoo ~x86 Intel Core Duo 2GHz | 2G+4G | No | none | 8.40.4 | winthrowe (huge white triangles unless shaders removed) |
ATI | Radeon X1300 x16 PCIe | Mandriva AMD 64 3800+ | 1G+10G | Yes | All settings at highest | 8.41.7 | jeffrobins (ship is still transparent - maybe a setting?) |
ATI | Radeon 9800 256MB | Windows 2000 (P3-1G) | 256M+2G | Yes | Bump Mapping + Fallback | Catalyst 7.3 | klauss (memory shortage needs disabled music) |
ATI | Radeon 9600 128MB | KUbuntu 7.04 x86_64 + AMD64X2 4200+ | 1G+5G | Yes | All(?) settings at highest | 8.41.7 | slowhand (8.40.4 gives huge white triangles) |