Generally no. Desktop usage involves lots of large rectangles, which
we handle well. And I won't tolerate the kind of laziness I see in
the DDX modules for some graphics chips. We damn well will accelerate
zero-lines that are long enough to benefit from it. There are
multiple ways to accelerate text. We'll have a real hardware cursor.
There's no excuse for accelerating only solid fills and bitblts.
Accelerated text? That would be so cool!!
If it could speed up/smooth the scrolling in Gnome Terminal that would be so nice! Those Anti Aliased fonts really kills it.
Doom 3 uses the GPU in ways that are completely different from how the
desktop (regular 2D apps) does. But you might get good performance on
a AGP bus.
Compared to my current card, that will be an improvement=) Diamond Viper 550 TNT 16MB AGP 2X. Had it since 1998 =)
> Will the 3D preformance in OGP be comparable to some old 3D cards?
Better in some ways, comparable in others. Generally, we've
implemented the most important parts of the OpenGL spec.
Wouldn't it be fun if e.g. Toms hardware took it in one of their tests?=) Toms is known to choose resolusions and games that makes the hardware they would like to win look better. So if they doesn't read this post, we might be able to win =)
> Would it be likely that the OGC could be sold from an EU contry? I am
> thinking about that it is rather expensive to buy from the US if you live in
> Europe.
I hope some places will distribute it.
What would it require? Could I e.g. becom a distributor?
Well, the basic stuff isn't a problem. It's just certain kinds of
priveleged bus accesses. We'll let the hackers tackle that after
we've gotten the usual ones finished. :)
Sounds like a plan =)
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