Subject: Re: Client 0.4.0!!
From: Kevan Benson (kentrak@sonic.net)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2000 - 00:15:43 EET
Yeah. My TNT2 is accellerated, just not as well as it could be. XFree86 4.0 WILL fix this though. It should have full support, not to mention the rendering pipeline is MUCH better. It should be better that even windows accelleration on the same machine, as they are adopting SGI's method of passing 3D calls to the card. They are allowing the application to bypass the gui entirely and make calls directly to the hardware (or API controlling it I guess). This should REALLY whip up 3D support of rlinux. -Kevan On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Rob Pryor wrote: > The main problem with the linux client is most people's 3D cards are not > being hardware accelerated. I'm hoping Xfree4.0 will cure some of that. I > tried a commerical Xserver for my card (Diamond Stealth III S540 - Savage4 > chipset) and I went from about .4fps (Yup, that's point-four fps) to > 35-55fps (I think I mentioned this before. Oh well). I assume people with a > 3dfx or a G400 would be lucky, since I *believe* those have hardware > accelerated Xservers. > On a side note, the new client does look great. Kudos to the devel > team.. =] > > Rob Pryor > CrownNet SysAdmin > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Charlie was a chemist, but Charlie is no more, > what Charlie thought was H2O, was H2SO4 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
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