Anyone else go to SGI's Linux University?

Jason Brown vafudar@earthlink.net
Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:35:00 -0700


On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> No DRI support for nVidia cards because of the closed source drivers
> (not linux's fault of course)... 3dfx has really came to the table with
> it's arms out but I still get really poor performance with my voodoo3
> with games like Unreal Tournament and Quake 3. 

I run a pIII550 with a voodoo 3000 agp and my experience with quake3 has been
great.

Jason Brown

> 
> It's much better than it use to be but it still has a long way to go.
> That's one of the reasons I wanted more info on Xfree86 4 and DRI. I
> installed xfree86 4 and configured everything according to all the doc's
> I could find... I was running the GL gears test and other GL apps OK but
> q3 still ran like shit (comapred to windows)... 
> 
> 
> Just my $cents++
> 
> Mike 
> 
> sinck@corp.quepasa.com wrote:
> > 
> > \_ Poor GL support
> > 
> > Define poor GL support, if you would?
> > 
> > I've done some hairy things in GL on my p120 at home....
> > 
> > Though if you mean apps that support GL, then I'd be inclined to agree
> > with you...
> > 
> > David
> > 
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