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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-12-13 01:26 -------
(In reply to comment #55)
> Right now it seems both Nvidia and ATI are both pushing to remove old "legacy"
> code from their "unified" drivers for "legacy" cards. Even ATI is removing
> R200.
Yes, ATI removed support for legacy *cards*. But that's a different issue from
removing legacy OpenGL extensions, particularly since it means that for R200
owners there is now only one driver choice - Mesa.
> It may be possible that with a new card or driver release that it will
> disappear. I believe blizzard would conform when a driver causes breakage.
> Actually, I think ATI or NVidia would notify them before a release would
> occur.
I don't claim to understand the exact relationship between games companies and
hardware companies, but there are more games companies that graphics companies
and all the games companies would need to stop using something before it could
be removed from a driver.
> It is obviously true, that convincing blizzard to do anything about it
> without
> a driver breaking on a supported platform is slim.
Yes, so now I have the following choices:
- Buy an entirely new graphics card that fglrx supports (e.g. X1650 AGPx8?). But
that would be a "loss" for Free Software.
- Wait for Blizzard to do something - although its last patch made things worse,
not better, and so I'm not expecting anything to happen any time soon.
- Scan the WoW executable / data files for the slim chance that the vertex
programs are in clear-text, and then hack them myself somehow - which might just
break Blizzard's EULA.
- Run without GL_ARB_vertex_program enabled (which is what I do now),
effectively downgrading my R200 to an R100 or something.
I happen to have a Radeon 9550 card lying around, but even if Mesa did support
this card as well as the Radeon 9200 series, the r300_dri.so would surely choke
on the vertex programs as badly as the r200_dri.so driver does. And similarly
for any i965-based hardware too.
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