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OpenGL 2.0: Chasing DirectX
MJ writes "Is
OpenGL 2.0 All That? Hopefully you will be able to answer that yourself after reading this article from XtremePcCentral. They have cool looking leap frog graphics with lots of arrows and a quote from John Carmack, what else could
you ask for? Robert Richmond does a great job of delving into this
subject. Carmack says, 'The implementation went very smoothly, but I did run into the limits of
their current prototype compiler before the full feature set could be
implemented. I like it a lot. I am really looking forward to doing research work
with this programming model after the compiler matures a bit. While the shading
languages are the most critical aspects, and can be broken out as extensions to
current OpenGL, there are a lot of other subtle-but-important things that are
addressed in the full OpenGL 2.0 proposal.'"
flaimbait.
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i thought it was kind of funny.
somebody should kick the ever living crap out of some moderators...who have their head up their ass.
your vision is crystal clear, if it hasn't been strangled yet il will, if it already has there's no chance it can pick up. Man, I hope you haven't painted your house windows in stupid RGBY colors! Oh, go to your fav store and let M$ screw you, after all it's your wallet that's getting raped... wait, it's fools like you that got BeOS killed (never mind the last mismanagments, it's like those last contractions when a living being passes away) or that keep M$ fat living off those viral vectors like OutOfLuck or Office... next thing, we'll lose control on multimedia formats thanks to those million fools using MediaPlayer. Heh, guess that DE-COMMODITIZING strategy moved up the stack-layer... in Italy we say: "La madre dei fessi è sempre incinta" Good night (ahhh, once in a life it's fun to drop a flamebait)
Mi domando chi à il mandante di tutte le cazzate che faccio - Altan
FALSE, GLIDE IS AN OPEN STANDARD
there are no more voodoo cards
FALSE, VOODOO CARDS HAVE EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD COMPATIBILITY AND EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE ACROSS ALL OPERATING SYSTEMS AND PLATFORMS (THANKS TO OPEN STANDARDS)
Direct3D support was added later to appease the rest
FALSE, THREE VIDEO MODES WERE SUPPORTED IN DIABLO2 UPON RELEASE AT RETAIL, PRIORITY GIVEN AS APPEARED: Direct3D, DirectDraw, and 3Dfx Glide. GLIDE NEVER WAS UPDATED MUCH BECAUSE IT WAS EASY TO IMPLEMENT CORRECTLY THE FIRST TIME. DIRECT3D ALWAYS WAS BUGGY and NEEDED UPDATING AT EVERY RELEASE OF DIRECTX. DIRECTDRAW WAS ALWAYS STABLE AS GLIDE
The first implementation in D2 didn't even work for most cards
FALSE, DIRECTDRAW WAS AND STILL IS BEST SUPPORTED RENDERING IN DIABLO2: EVEN ON 3DFX CARDS. *ALL* VIDEOCARDS ARE SUPPORTED IN DIABLO2'S DIRECTDRAW...GET YOUR FACTS STRAIT
vastly superior GeForce2 cards performed abysmally
FALSE, GEFORCE2 WAS AND AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN SUPPORTED OPTIMALLY DUE TO NVIDIA'S STABLE DIRECT3D DRIVERS AND SAME WAS FOR ATI'S DIRECT3D DRIVERS. ONLY ISSUES WERE WITH SHITTY MOTHERBOARDS LIKE THE PARENT POSTER'S MOTHBOARD (YES MOTHBOARD)
the posters voodoo card really does suck
FALSE, VOODOO2 IN NON_SLI MODE ACHIEVES EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE IN ALL RENDER MODES OF DIABLO2; ONLY ISSUES WERE ON VIDEO SWITCHING WHEN USING OEM VOODOO2 DRIVERS. USE THE L8EST DRIVERS ON WWW.VOODOOFILES.COM
Diablo 2's code realy does suck
NO SHIT. AND BLIZZARD SUCKED IT UP MANY TIMES JUST TO TRY MAKING BNETD AND FSGS TO NOT WORK AND FAILED AND TOOK THEM BOTH DOWN USING LAWYERS (HIP_HIP, FUCK BLIZZARD)
you're not going to find a way to run Diablo 2 in openGL
FALSE, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A GLIDE-TO-OPENGL WRAPPER; CLOSEST YOU'LL GET TO CRISP OPENGL GRAPHICS. OR YOU CAN WAIT FOR THE DIABLO2 SOURCE TO GET LEAKED AND SOMEONE WILL CREATE AN OPENGL RENDERER FOR DIABLO2; BLIZZARD DOESN'T LIKE OPENGL BECAUSE IT REQUIRES SKILL TO PROGRAM IN OPENGL. GO FIGURE IT OUT.
you CAN (doh) use a GLIDE (duba-doh) wrapper driver on your Geforce3. I dunno if that's worth it, though.
YOU HAVE MORE OPTIONS AND THEY ARE ALWAYS WORTH THE TRY. GET A DIRECT3D-TO-OPENGL WRAPPER OR GET A GLIDE-TO-OPENGL WRAPPER; THEY ALL WORK NICELY AND THE FASTEST ONE WILL ALWAYS BE THE GLIDE-TO-OPENGL WRAPPER BECAUSE GLIDE IS SMALLER AND MORE EFFICIENT TO MOVE AROUND>YOU WILL NEVER SEE ANYTHING UNTIL GEFORCE7 RENDER GLIDE AS FAST AS A VOODOO3. ALL VOODOOs HAVE EXCELLENT SUPPORT IN FREEBSD AND LINUX AND MICROSOFT CAN'T SAY THE SAME BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS DUMP AND RE-INNOVATE A SLOWER OPERATING SYSTEM EVERY TWO YEARS FOR THE DRIVERS TO NOT MATURE: ENJOY 10 DIFFERENT DRIVER-BASES IN THE FUTURE OF MICROSOFT.
OH AND FUCK YOU; almost forgot (doh).
+5 FLAMEBAIT (HIP_HIP, FUCK MODERATORS)