Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:14:11 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Something to show off...? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902061912560.368-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199902061824.TAA01952@yedi.iaf.nl>
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On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> As The Hermit Hacker wrote...
> > On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> >
> > > > Can someone suggest an app or demo that I can run, under FreeBSD, to "wow"
> > > > ppl? I got this nice video card, and I frankly don't know what to do with
> > > > it :( Its a 3D/video acceleration card that is supported by XFree86, and
> > > > that quite a few ppl have been drooling over to put into a Win95 "game
> > > > server" :) I don't think I'm getting much out of it with plain X running,
> > > > and even if its just something to show off what I can do, that would be
> > > > cool...
> > >
> > > try Blender ? or mpegtv (mtv), or fxtv (if you have a video acquisition
> > > card)...
> >
> > no video acquisition card yet...next toy...
> >
> > downloaded blender...going to have to flip to my old card and see if I
> > notice a difference between the two...tried a few of the demos in the
> > tutor pack, and altho they look impressive, they look slow too, but I'm
> > curious as to whether they'd look worse with my old card or not *shrug*
>
> >From playing with blender a bit I'd guess you need the heftiest CPU
> money can buy, and then buy the best video card from the money left.
I'm running a PII-266 as CPU, 128Meg of RAM and a Creative Graphics
Blaster RivaTNT video card with 16Meg of RAM on it...does that count? :)
Actually, with that, I was impressed with how responsive Blender was, but
I'm curious as to how much of that is the CPU vs the video card, so will
be downgrading the video card later this evening to see ...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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