On Thursday 29 December 2011 10:21:11 Vivian Meazza wrote: > That said - why use drivers that cannot handle .dds compression formats? I > assume closed source drivers are OK?
They simply are not. I currently cannot use FlightGear due to simply unusable performance with free drivers but still, it's worth this tradeoff for me after years of pain with closed source drivers (both NVidia and ATI/AMD). Free drivers allow me to: * do my job which is programming which needs loads of text on the screen (closed source drivers gave unusably low performance here) * have multiple X servers running, so my girlfriend can have her own user on my computer without either of us having to log out all the time * upgrade to current (development) kernel any time * have decent video performance * actually get support for kernel problems In sum, these features are worth more to me than FlightGear, though I miss it very much. The free radeon drivers nowadays are good enough for many games and other software. It would be nice if FG developers acknowledged their existence and avoided breaking their user's experience. Personally I hope to get back to at least flyable performance levels with a CPU upgrade in the near future. But even if not, I would never go back to closed source drivers. Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
