Stefan On Thursday 29 December 2011 10:21:11 Vivian Meazza wrote: > > > That said - why use drivers that cannot handle .dds compression formats? > I > > assume closed source drivers are OK? > > They simply are not. I currently cannot use FlightGear due to simply > unusable > performance with free drivers but still, it's worth this tradeoff for me > after > years of pain with closed source drivers (both NVidia and ATI/AMD). Free > drivers allow me to: > > * do my job which is programming which needs loads of text on the screen > (closed source drivers gave unusably low performance here) > * have multiple X servers running, so my girlfriend can have her own user > on > my computer without either of us having to log out all the time > * upgrade to current (development) kernel any time > * have decent video performance > * actually get support for kernel problems > > In sum, these features are worth more to me than FlightGear, though I miss > it > very much. The free radeon drivers nowadays are good enough for many games > and > other software. It would be nice if FG developers acknowledged their > existence > and avoided breaking their user's experience. > > Personally I hope to get back to at least flyable performance levels with > a CPU > upgrade in the near future. But even if not, I would never go back to > closed > source drivers. >
I hear your pain - but as I said - you don't have to use materials-dds.xml - it's not the not the default. Neither do you have to use any shaders - they are switchable. If you still can't run Flightgear - well you know the solution - upgrade your system. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
