> True if you want to run fullscreen, and you can live with the other
> limitations ie 16 bit colour and Z buffer, and 256x256 textures maximum.
> The Voodoo 4 and 5 overcome these limitations however, and I am just waiting
> for them to come out...
Also the voodoo 4 and 5 have a geometric processor so you can rotate
objects in hardware. It also has hardware lighting.
> Also there is no actual AGP support per se. They are however the only cards
> you can get full acceleration without running as root.
Will no longer be the case.
> > The g400 is just not that fast yet if you
> > want a stable driver (pre-warp GLX)..
>
> The current warp drivers are stable in my experience. There seem to be some
> severe fill rate limitations (at least on the non Max versions of these
> cards) which make them unusuable at high resolutions. AGP support works
> on some chipsets (BX, not Athlons).
They are getting their :)
> > The g400 has an advantage however in that I have yet to convinced this
> > thing (Voodoo3) to run in a window. When I tell it to run in a window it
> > ends up full-screen anyway and it tries to use this LAME framebuffer copy
> > hack which makes it not even worth it. I just haven't managed to get good
> > 3D in a window with the voodoo3 with Mesa, at least not with X 3.3.6 and
> > Mesa 3.1. If someone can tell me how PLEASE DO! => Why would you want
> > it? Just wait till something crashes. gdb and full-screen voodoo3 don't
> > mix. Trust me. =>
Thats the way the GLX protocol is designed to do. Actually if you resize
the window the GLX driver will crash hard.
> The new NVidia drivers are complete crap and lock within seconds. The old
> ones were usuable, I dodnt find them that slow on TNT 2 Ultras. Nvidia
> are paying for closed source drivers which are apparently very good; they
> will be out with XFree86 4. The closed source nature causes problems for
> some of us who need to change the code.
The current NVidia drivers suck. They don't even do DMA. The hardware is
out of this world. I heard that the drivers from VA will be much much
better. In fact I heard their system outperforms all other systems
including DRI systems.
> In summary the situation is a mess now. What we want is GGI3D support, and
> Voodoo is likely to be the first target...
Yeap. As well as the ATI 128 drivers. It looks like I'm going to get a
card dontated.
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