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GeForce3 Titanium Reviews

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the simulating-the-third-dimension dept.

Paladin128 sent us Tom's and Anandtech's respective reviews of the new NVIDIA GeForce3 Titanium series. DX8.1 compatibility (What is that anyway?), Shadow Buffers, 3D Textures, assorted other stuffs. Hey, but why is everything 'Titanium' now anyway? Laptops. Batteries. Video cards. I wonder if I can get titanium plating.

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  1. Re:Yeah but... by turbine216 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Nvidia only provides one generic open-source driver for xFree86, which supports full 2D acceleration, and supports OpenGL 1.2. From an interview last year with nvidia's Nick Triantos:


    "Basically, NVIDIA's drivers cannot be open sourced. They contain several components which are licensed technology, and we have no rights to share that source code with anyone. We do not even provide source code to OpenGL or our kernel module to our board customers"


    seems like a reasonable explanation to me. (Interview from theDukeofURL.org.