Is nouveau good for playing 2d games and 3d games?

Is nouveau good for playing 2d games and 3d games?I have heard from many linux users that it doesn't run games well.you have to install the nvidia-prop. driver for playing full 3d acceleration games.But the downside of nvidia-prop. driver is that it is not supported well by desktop environments like KDE and gnome as it is not a opensource driver and it cannot be modified.i'm thinking of switching from nvidia-prop. to nouveau. any suggestions will be accepted.

Well, I previously ran the nvidia binary blob for many years, but the last couple of months I've been using nouveau and I can't say I've noticed any difference except perhaps in Blender when doing sculpting with very heavy subdivision levels. As for 2d I've noted absolutely no difference, certainly no slowdown with web animations either as someone stated. That said I'm not really doing alot of gaming, mainly some indie stuff and good old starcraft broodwars (using a VirtualBox win2k vm), so as far as taxing the 3d properties I guess only Blender applies but as I said it's been decent performance there. My card is a 9600GT.

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Buy this from apple;
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my budget is $1000.
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This is only a personal taste of mine:
I prefer to work in Virtual Machines. In fact I did set up a VM just for my programming. This has the advantage that games and other stuff are not slowed down by SQL Server Services and similiar stuff.
This also allows me to quickly make a small virtual networks with multiple clients if I need to test some client/server stuff.
Plus I am also a bit of an adminstrator and prefer to test stuff in VM's before I try them in the real world.
I prefer using Virtual Box for Virtual Machines, so one thing of big importance was support for VT-X/AMD-V. Without them Virtual Box cannot run x64 guests even on a x64 host system.
Otherwise I wanted Windows 8 (so I could finally learn to live with it/learn programming for it's UI). And of big importance was an upgrade of gaming ability (my old one had difficulty/impossibility to run most current games).
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