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Mesa 5.0 Released

Posted by Hemos on from the make-the-pretty-graphics dept.

Eugenia writes "Mesa 5.0 has been released. It implements the OpenGL 1.4 specification." There's more information as to what's been fixed/added/changed on their SF.net project page.

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  1. I don't know what they did by RomikQ · · Score: 5, Informative

    But the new mesa seems to have intelligent workload distribution between the cpu and the gpu, i e

    glxgears running in a small window - 200 fps, average 2% cpu load(with Mesa 4.1 it was 800 fps 100% load),
    running maximized in 1600x1200 - 80 fps, 100% load(exactly as with Mesa 4.1).
    And all the games and etc run at exactly the same speeds with less cpu load.

    All I can say is this is great - nobody needs insane fps numbers above 100 and it saves cpu for my poor apache running in the background :). Server gaming woohoo!

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  2. Re:mesa sucks compared to dx 9 by quigonn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hey, OpenGL is at least standardized, something you can build on for years. Nobody can guarantee you that the next version of DirectX will be compatible with the current version.

    In fact, there are only two 3D APIs that are standardized and (more or less) widely used: OpenGL and OpenInventor.

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  3. Re:How does it compare on windows? by dinivin · · Score: 4, Informative


    Why would you want to see that comparison? nVidia's Linux drivers are hardware accelerated. Generic Mesa is not.

    Dinivin

  4. Re:mesa sucks compared to dx 9 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Direct3D STILL sucks for scientific visualisation (still favours texture pushing over high-poly-count), and is STILL Windoze-only (Wine excepted). OpenGL sucks less, and is not bound to C++ (Well, o.k. DirectX is theoretically COM, but I defy you to program it seriously in anything other than MS-bastardised C++)

    Scientists tend to use grown-up OSes (i.e. no Windoze) and code in Fortran 95 or HPF, pure C or occasionally Lisp - all languages with OpenGL bindings.

    You can learn OpenGL+SDL basics in an afternoon, and have flocks of teapots flying across your screen the following morning. Just beginning to learn DirectX and Direct3D means taking on board all the bizarro-world Microsoftian "C++" and COM cruft.

    OpenGL's going to be around for some time.

    Now, it is inappropriate for hardware raytracing cards, but us people in the scientific graphics community (and movie-making-community) are only getting to play with them now, don't expect them to trickle down to the gaming market for a while yet.

  5. Re:Mesa is not hardware accelerated by 0x0d0a · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mesa is not hardware accelerated

    You mean Mesa's software driver is not hardware accelerated. Take a look at the Mesa FAQ, point 1.2.

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