Justin,
Our team is developing on just the platform you are describing. The
performance is not that stellar. The ATI chipset in the laptop is the
Mobility - P and when I originally had J3D on D3D 1.2 beta provide
information about what, if any, hardware acceleration was being performed
my machine reported NONE.
To recap, from our experiences:
- OpenGL hardware support is NOT there.
- DirectX 7 is part of Win2K and therefore J3D / D3D works as advertised
- J3D on D3D seems to run at a variety of colordepth / resolution combinations
- For some reason dual screen support is not supported under Win2k--I hope
they fix this.
I don't have the same configuration with Win98 so I can't really compare
performance.
However, if you want me to run a performance test using OGL and then D3D
let me know.
--Mark
At 11:27 AM 9/21/2000 +0800, Justin Couch wrote:
>Getting a laptop with the new Job and trying to work out what, if any HW
>accelaration I will be getting. The ATI site is pretty useless for
>getting some information. My understanding is the following
>
>Win2K is supported
>- Drivers are for D3Dv7 only
>- No OpenGL support
>- NFI what screen res/depth it will run on
>- Dual screen output not supported
>
>This sound about right? Am thinking that probably better to stay with
>Win98 as the support is better for HW accelaration. Any comments on
>experiences with Win2K+laptop users out there on how well J3D runs with
>it?
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