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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. How does it compare on windows? by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It'd be interresting to know how this release compares to other OpenGL implementations on Windows. Anyone looked into this?

    Why Windows? It's always interresting to see how any open software solutions stack up versus their proprietary cousins on a proprietary system.

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    1. Re:How does it compare on windows? by The+Original+Yama · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I personally would like to see how this compares to the OpenGL implementation in the nVIDIA Linux drivers. Anybody got any benchmark figures?

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    2. Re:How does it compare on windows? by g4dget · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's interesting for another reason: some graphics cards only support Direct3D, but Mesa can be used as a wrapper around Direct3D to give you an OpenGL interface. Past examples of such wrappers have performed reasonably well, and since Direct3D has improved, it should only get better.

    3. Re:How does it compare on windows? by wing.app · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It says in the Mesa FAQ that it will be hardware accelerated with DRI when they decide to include it in XFree86

  2. I don't get it by sql*kitten · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to use Mesa years ago as a software-only OpenGL-like API, on a system for which there was no OpenGL implementation, but I was writing code to run on a system that did have it (these were MacOS 7.x and an Indy, if memory serves). But if you have an OpenGL driver, what does Mesa do? Surely the libraries that come with the driver implement the API? Or does it just let you write 1.4 code with a card/driver that only supports up to 1.2 in the hardware, and do the new 1.4 features in software?

  3. XFree86 by choward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mesa is very tightly bound to XFree86. Are there instructions out there for how to replace the Mesa that ships with XFree86 4.x with this new version? Does anyone know when XFree86 4.3 is due out and which Mesa version it will have?

    I'd like to try this out and see if I can finally get some decent FPS on my Radeon 7000, but I don't want to sacrifice stability by messing with Mesa if I don't know what I'm doing.

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