Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:28:11 -0500 (EST) From: <joeo@cracktown.com> To: <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OpenGL Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201101103520.2855-100000@asmodean-ssn.nks.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201101056230.1016-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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Yeah, I'm impressed with the nvidia cards too, when they work, under linux. But remember the GeForce2MX is a couple of generations ahead of a G400/G450, Rage 128, voodoo4/5 or for that matter a first generation ATI radeon (at least the functionality that the DRI exposes). Additionally Nvidia _pays_ smart, focused coders to write optimized code, make their drivers OpenGL version x compliant, fix multi-texturing bugs, fix lighting bugs, fix blending bugs, fix fogging bugs, fix alpha channel bugs, work around application bugs... On the other hand I hear a lot of cussing during Friday evening fragfests when lockups occurs in the cubes next to mine. Especially after either a new linux kernel is released and/or a new set of nvidia drivers is released... That's not to imply my setup is lockup free itself, and the former observation is probably more a reflection of the upgrade mindset the surrounding users have... On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > With this DRI support, I'd have to say that OpenGL (and 3D in general) > > has finally "arrived" for FreeBSD. This is really good, almost as > > fast as OpenGL on MacOS X with an ATI or Geforce card, and that's > > really saying something 'cause the Apple folks worked on tuning their > > GL to be the best performing implementation I've ever seen, SGI O2 > > workstations included. > > I dunno, I've seen a middle of the road K7 pull down over 1500fps with a > GF2MX (Under Linux of course.) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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