HI All,

Thomas Beer wrote:
> 
> I don't think that will be that much of a problem with upcoming hardware
> generations.
> 
> I can imagine that upcoming cards/drivers won't have hardware fixed-function
> pipelines any longer but emulating those in the driver anyway (via shaders).
> 
> It's only an assumption but for me this would be the straight-forward way of
> graphics-hardware-evolution ;)

that was my understanding, too. AFAIK the ATI boards haven't had any silicon 
dedicated to fixed function in a few generations, they generate a shader on the 
fly. I assume nVidia does the same thing by now.

        Dirk

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