On Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:04, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..or, which video cards can , and, can not use these extensions? > (I can use that info now, I'm looking for a new card now.)
Anything from the Geforce 256 era and up support most of the DXTC/S3TC texture compression formats whether it be ATI or nVidia. The Geforce 256 only supports the most important 3 of the 5 texture compression formats. There are 5 formats in total but only DXT1, DXT3 and DXT5 are implemented and supported in most cases. There is little interest in DXT2 and DXT4 which are premultiplied alpha formats. This extension is written against the OpenGL 1.2.1 specification. It is impossible to run most of the newer games nowdays with a card that does not support texture compression. All the big titles like FS2004, Doom3, Unreal Tournament 2003 rely heavily on texture compression. S3's texture compression scheme (S3TC) was licensed to Microsoft who incorporated it into DirectX. It is referred to as DXTC compression in Direct3D but S3TC in OpenGL. Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
