Date: 28 Aug 2000 19:58:55 +0200 From: Roland Jesse <jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> To: Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware accelerated OpenGL using XFree on FreeBSD Message-ID: <0vr9795ktc.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> In-Reply-To: Marc van Woerkom's message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:04:46 %2B0200 (CEST)" References: <0vu2c9wk0t.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> <20000828160446.A4195199B@nil.science-factory.com>
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Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com> writes: > 3dfx carss, Matrox G200/G400 and nvidia cards are supported > more or less well. Driver qualitity is also different for > XFree86 3.3.x series and 4.x series. I assume 4.x does not perform worse than 3.x does. > And game playing is the driving force behind present consumer cards. Very true and very sad. BTW: <http://www.freebsd.org/~3d/>; seems to address the same audience. *} > perhaps a GeForce is good enough. Well, the question stands whether a GeForce would give recognizably more than the current TNT2. The machine is not used for games but just some VTK development. > How does the Win32 version of your card's drivers and the Win32 > version of VTK look in comparison? Dunno as I don't have Win32 on the machine. > I am sure you can buy more expensive cards. Well, *that's* for sure. But would it give me anything in regard to XFree86 (4.x)? I don't deem that very probable. Thanks much for sharing your thoughts. Roland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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