| I'm guessing Suse 9.1 should probably do a basic graphical install pretty easily, being a major distro. Further tweaking may be required though.
As for drivers, I don't know about 64bit, but Far Cry on my Rad9700 is never going to happen - the Ati drivers for linux are a joke, they only support XF86, which most distributions have ditched in favour of xorg's license. It's possible to get it working but I've not managed it. Even when that succeeds (I had their drivers working back on fedora core1) the performance of the driver is poor at best compared to windows. I don't know about Nvidia though, I think their driver is open source and supposedly better (updated more often, more compatible, faster?). Ati just don't invest enough time in their linux driver and they've kept its source closed because of 3rd party licenses or something.
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