> Ugh...  Ok, I see, I understand.  What a shame.  Really, it is- the driver as
> it stands ends up being SLOWER than a mach64 under Utah-GLX.  Yes, Utah-GLX
> was less secure, but to be so much slower as to have the same gears framerate
> with a PIII-600 as I got with a PII-450 on a supposedly slower chipset- well,
> it really sickens me.  What's the mach64 card going to end up being like
> performance wise?

Raster wise - exactly the same.
Geomtry wise - a bit worse, but maybe there are some good opts in mesa 4.0 to
make up some of the difference.

> Are there any cards out there that don't have seriously borked DMA models
> that we have to do intrinsically inefficient things just to secure the
> driver?  I had hoped that the i810 would be a workable chipset for the pilot
> project with my employer's planned product offerings- it would be a slow
> chip, but it would allow me a way of demoing some 3D games, etc. on a set-top
> box system.  Now, well...

The i810 is seriously raster bound for most games, I'd be suprised if it made
much difference in those situations.

Keith

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