They may be fast, but I don't find them to be the "absolute highest
quality" drivers for linux I've ever seen. They've crashed X more than
once...heck they've crashed my KERNEL at least once (remember the
screwey HUGE kernel driver you have to load?...) Quite frankly, I think
the nVidia drivers are the worst of the evils in terms of video drivers
for linux. They ALL suck (at least all the vendor supplied onces, which
are the only ones that can do anything thanks to various companies
moaning and groaning about their precious IP. yeah, like somsone's
gunna clone your card using your linux driver, I don't think any major
company with enough resources to do that would be willing to take that
risk).
The only drivers I've seen that I was actually impressed with were the
3dfx ones: fast as hell for the hardware. The only problem is that the
hardware sucked, and then they were bought by the evil nVidia (who
INSTANTLY took down linux.3dfx.com I might add). Basically you could
say nVidia has truely pissed me off, but unfortunately, they are
basically the only maker of decent (hardware wise) consumer-level 3d
accellerators.
Anyway, I'm done ranting now.
--MonMotha
Warren Togami wrote:
On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 23:47, Jeff Mings wrote:
I've been playing Unreal Tournament on my Linux box for quite some
time now without WineX - I am fairly confident that the native Linux
build would be noticeably faster than running the Windoze version under
WineX. The ability to turn off any process I don't _absolutely_ need
and use a bare-bones WM like TWM gives my Linux box a speed edge over
Win98 when running Unreal Tournament. I'll drop you an email when I'm
planning my next LAN party ;)
-Jeff
Do you have an NVidia video card?
The higher 3D speed in Linux is only due to the high quality NVidia
drivers. They are from the same code base as the Windows drivers, with
a few Windows specific features removed because they are not needed. It
is mainly due to these missing pieces they actually run faster than the
Windows versions. The NVidia drivers is the absolute highest quality
OpenGL implementation on Linux.
While the Linux platform itself would add some to game and graphics
performance, the open source DRI drivers for other video cards are
nowhere near the quality and optimizations of the closed source NVidia
drivers. For this reason I don't think it is possible to have a
non-NVidia card run faster in Linux than Windows at the moment.
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