| Mental on Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:39:16 -0500 (EST) |
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 06:03:31PM -0500, Joel A. Matz wrote: > Why, may I ask, did you not go for the Voodoo?... > Strauss' servers have been stable for ages, Q3test looked great. Because if I want to game und linux, I have 2 voodoo2's. Gaming under linux sucks right now. Gaming under windows on the otherhand, is great. I'm not particularly happy about it, but its the truth. I got the GeForce because it blows the 3dfx cards out of the water. And, the Xserver for the Geforce is fine (in respects to 2d). Further, if I was primarily concerned with 3d under linux, I still wouldnt have gone for a 3dfx card. I would have goten a Matrox G400. Its supported very well and is one of the main cards mesa supports since the hardware specs are available. Being restricted to 16bit color in 3d type stuff is... not a good thing. Quake3 at the highest detail settings, 32bit everything, trilinear filtering, and stencile buffered shadows is _almost_ playable at 1600x1200. Its more than playable at 1024x768. The same cannot be said for 3dfx cards. They're limited to 16bit color. I know a couple people working on the mesa stuff with G400's. The hardware t&l is very nice. The X support is decent. Hopefully by the time XFree4 comes out, Linux 2.4 will be here. There's hooks in the new kernel for XFree's DRI. Should be nice. And the fonts will finally be decent :) Yes. XFree4 FINALLY has support for true type fonts. And since, somehow I got on a roll about XFree, I figure I might as well share this URL now. The XFree DeUglification Howto: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html Mental -- "you make insanity respectable." --Helcat on the subject of Mental. Attachment:
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