Glide recommendations? (was Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?)

[Dave Sherohman]

aphro said:
 well wasnt the black magic card a special card? dual processors on the
 board or something?

It's definitely not dual processor.  It was one of the first V2 cards out,
though, and I think it _may_ have been the first one with 12 MB RAM on it,
but I'm not sure about that.  (You could get 2 Black Magics and do SLI, but
it's from long before they started making single-board SLI cards.)

 i dont like vd3 because it seems technically inferior(feature wise) to the
 competition, but it works...

OK, new question, then:

What do you recommend for a Linux-friendly Glide board that will do hardware
acceleration in a window?

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Re: Glide recommendations? (was Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?)

[aphro]

well, again its not a hardware issue but a software one.

to do 3D rendering in  a window you have 2 options(as far as i know)

1) use XF86 v4.0 (which is alpha)
2) get the developers edition of OpenGL AcceleratedX (about $300 i think)

any of the v3 3dfx cards should do this but not in XF86 3.3.5.  Note if
you use XF86 4.0 chances are none of the games will work(until they are
updated for XF86 4.0).

or you could get a Matrox G400 and use openGL and u get anll the
in-windowing acceleration  you want in XF86 3.3.5 (same for Riva and TNT
and Geforce)..

does this help?

nate

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote:

esper aphro said:
esper  well wasnt the black magic card a special card? dual processors on the
esper  board or something?
esper 
esper It's definitely not dual processor.  It was one of the first V2 cards 
out,
esper though, and I think it _may_ have been the first one with 12 MB RAM on 
it,
esper but I'm not sure about that.  (You could get 2 Black Magics and do SLI, 
but
esper it's from long before they started making single-board SLI cards.)
esper 
esper  i dont like vd3 because it seems technically inferior(feature wise) to 
the
esper  competition, but it works...
esper 
esper OK, new question, then:
esper 
esper What do you recommend for a Linux-friendly Glide board that will do 
hardware
esper acceleration in a window?
esper 
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Re: Glide recommendations? (was Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?)

[Dave Sherohman]

aphro said:
 any of the v3 3dfx cards should do this but not in XF86 3.3.5.  Note if
 you use XF86 4.0 chances are none of the games will work(until they are
 updated for XF86 4.0).

You are correct.  Glide3 versions are not currently available.

 or you could get a Matrox G400 and use openGL and u get anll the
 in-windowing acceleration  you want in XF86 3.3.5 (same for Riva and TNT
 and Geforce)..

Yep, that helps!

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