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For instance, Nvidia is known to refuse to disclose the hardware specifications needed to write a graphics driver, providing a closed binary only. Therefore, the free nouveau driver cannot support 3D acceleration, which is not good if you want to run FlightGear. | For instance, Nvidia is known to refuse to disclose the hardware specifications needed to write a graphics driver, providing a closed binary only. Therefore, the free nouveau driver cannot support 3D acceleration, which is not good if you want to run FlightGear. | ||
On the other hand, AMD now publishes hardware specifications (though not complete) and the resulting free radeon driver for ATI/AMD chipsets provides a good 3D support for many cards, even recent ones (obviously not for the newest), so it is worth to try. An excellent source to see which card families and features are supported by | On the other hand, AMD now publishes hardware specifications (though not complete) and the resulting free radeon driver for ATI/AMD chipsets provides a good 3D support for many cards, even recent ones (obviously not for the newest), so it is worth to try. An excellent source to see which card families and features are supported by this driver, can be found on the Xorg Foundation website. [http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature] | ||
For example, FlightGear 2.10 runs smoothly with an ATI Radeon X1950 card using the | For example, FlightGear 2.10 runs smoothly with an ATI Radeon X1950 card, using the free radeon driver version 6.14.4 (the only issue being a locally strange rendering behavior if landscape rendering is enabled). | ||
'''If you experienced good results | '''If you experienced good results running FlightGear with a free graphics driver, please add them here with a few details.''' | ||
== Graphic Cards recommended for FlightGear 2.10+ == | == Graphic Cards recommended for FlightGear 2.10+ == | ||