There are even more platformers on the Gamecube than that. The Sonic games have been/are ported. The Harry Potter game is loads of fun. Luigi's Mansion was a Launch title. A Kirby game is on the way. A Pitfall game is in the works.
I'm willing to bet that it has more platformers than even the PS2.
He was also the star of Donnie Darko, also listed on his IMDB profile.
If you haven't seen Donnie Darko, *go out and rent it today*! It is probably one of the best films of 2002. He does a superb job in it, and it is probably one of the most intellectually stimulating small/med. budget films that you'll see of late. The storyline is superb, even with the occasional bit of teenage-grade humor that reflects growing up in the '80s.
Any modern card can pass Dolby Digital decoding to the DSP through a simple driver update. The big issue is paying for the license. It's expensive, and isn't practical for most card makers to include it when they've got similar routines that don't require the extra cost.
Not all nForce APUs support Dolby Digital. There is a reason why they are overlooked. The drivers have had serious problems with most applications that they are used in when it comes to mixing stereo audio to multi-speaker sound systems. Just ask anyone that uses an MSI nForce board if they can play Winamp and get audio mixed to each speaker (in all instances).
Also... The name "nForce" APU is misleading. Most of them are just rebranded Realtek ALC650 chips. nVidia has a deal with them to sell a bunch of lan and audio chips. Frankly, they are over-rated and have poor drivers. But they get the job done.
Yeah. Almost all PCI sound devices will work fine in Linux. The problem is that you won't get SPDIF with all chips. The big kicker is also that sound chips are like Winmodems and use software mixing in Windows. The only standard chips that use hardware real-time mixing are those from the Creative Live/Audigy line, Yamaha DSPs, and now the Envy24HT chips that are being used in professional applications and consumer cards like the M-Audio (Midiman) Revolution. If you don't have one of these, there is a good chance that you'll be fighting with slow sound mixers (artsd and esd) or buying a real-time software mixer called the Virtual Mixer PRO from 4-Front with their OSS drivers (good product though).
My suggestion to anyone looking to buy a top notch soundcard is to get the M-Audio Revolution from newegg.com for $100. It has the best sound quality and the drivers are progressing really quickly. ALSA and 4-Front are offering fabulous drivers for these products.
Creative stopped being "the standard" when "Soundblaster compatible" cards were no longer an issue.
Creative has one thing going for them. They have the largest penetration of the OEM market, at least on computers that aren't totally budget grade. Even now you see the old Ensoniq chips in VIA integrated boards. Frankly, Creative's products have been blow the competition for years. I'm not sure why people keep buying them. Turtle Beach, Hercules, even Philips have all had better cards.
I agree about the Yamaha thing though. They're cheap and have hardware, real-time mixing. That is the best thing that you can have in Linux.
The default kernel OSS driver doesn't have SPDIF out. Try ALSA or the OSS commerical. I have the OSS commercial drivers from 4-Front, and these features work, as do the rear speaker sets on my Santa Cruz (CS4630 based).
If you are interested in the drivers from www.opensound.com, I'd specifically ask the guys at 4-Front which features that they support.
But you will not get optical output from the kernel OSS drivers.
Not so. The M-Audio cards with the ENVY24HT work fine with ALSA, as do their older chips. Look for it in the "Midiman" section, which is their old name.
The Revolution, in my opinion, will be *the multiplatform* audio chip in the coming months. The sound quality tops all of the consumer level audio options. Technically, it is very much like the professional cards, but misses the breakout cables. Other than that, it's built on the same hardware.
Unlike the SB Audigy2, the Revolution is a real 24-bit/192kHz, 24-bit/96kHz recording card.
First of all, Gnome does have a menu editor. It just isn't where Windows users would expect for it to be. He clearly announced that Windows was his primary desktop, so that's probably why it was tough to find. Nautilus can open up "applications:///", which will point to the apps menu. You can right click and add folders or shortcuts. Most distributions should have the option listed in the control panel or something else. If RedHat doesn't have it, perhaps they should be to blame.
GTK2 is faster for many of us. I suppose that the results are dependant upon a proper system config. Same with Matacity. With proper drivers, mine draws perfectly fast.
In terms of stability, Gnome 2 as a whole seems more stable than XP, in my opinion, due to not being reliant on the kernel the way Windows is. But it isn't without its faults. The taskbar tools crash at times, but the crash recovery is very good when it does. If a tool dies, the panel fixes it, and everything is fine. Windows still has a nasty habit of losing icons in the tray if it recovers.
I'm not too sure that I feel his "I dislike GTK+ and C" comment is very valid either. It sounds rather biased, actually.
Talk to your hardware manufactuerer and ask them to stop making chips that do mixing in software only.
Your mixing under windows is an *illusion*. It's a DirectX trick that was implemented a few years ago to cut costs and take a "Winmodem" approach to making sound hardware. Only a few select sound chips do real hardware mixing. There are ALSA programs in development that will mix in software just as fast as DirectSound.
If you don't have a problem with spending a couple of dollars on quality drivers, head to opensound.com. That will solve your MP3/IM problem immediately. Their drivers come with a CPU controlled mixer that is real-time and supports many streams at one time. It automatically redirects any touches to/dev/dsp to a software device. Upgraders can get more virtual DSP devices and loopback record devices (record anything you play to a DSP device, evenm if it wasn't meant to be recorded).
Linux users aren't aware that the problem is *in their hardware*. Kernel sound developers insisted on not having a standard mixer, so you've had to suffer for it. 4-Front's mixer corrects this. ALSA's JACK does a similar thing.
The APIs are good. The effort from the *community* has been strong. The problem is the manufacturers. They design inexpensive DirectX "winmodem"-type sound devices that are only designed to mix one chanel, yada-yada. There aren't many hardware developers that have taken the time to make satisfactory drivers. Cirrus Logic did it with some of their chipsets (but they were crippled). Creative made a valiant effort with the Live series, but many of the envolved employees aren't with the company anymore.
What you are mentioning about "new hardware" is often incorrect. It is there, but comes at a price. 4-Front tech supports new cards, and they are even working on drivers for the brand new M-Audio (Midiman for you "professional" audio heads) cards. Actually, they probably have drivers for the Revolution as we speak... It's a high-end consumer card. Actually, the Envy chips are being used in a lot of products; M-Audio, Terratec, Hoontech...
It's hard to develop open source drivers when everyone has an intellectual property stick up their ass. But I will say that there are some quality ALSA drivers out there, and there are some Quality drivers from 4-Front at Opensound.com. It just depends on the device that you are using. You can't expect some Intel audio chip that nobody cares about to perform up to par. Stability isn't a problem, if you have good drivers. My OSS drivers for my Santa Cruz are rock solid, and have most (and a few extra) features that they had under Windows 2000.
The latency is good with proper drivers. The features are there with the right card. You just have to be picky about what you buy, because you can't expect the manufacturer to stand up and write some drivers. But I think that companies like nVidia have paved the way for hardware support on a multi-platform scale. Graphicws card companies are getting better at it, and it is just a matter of time before more sound companies step up.
Considering the fact that Microsoft killed Corel (WordPerfect) for the sake of its own products, I don't think that they really care about the loss. They've made more than enough to cover the extra 90%.
Couldn't that be the real reason that they invested in the company? Microsoft always gets its fingers into the competition when they feel that they could be a threat.
I was tired of waiting too, so I built it for Slackware Linux and Dropline Gnome from the 1.4a CVS. It is becoming better, but I have a feeling tha they are going to implement a better download manager before releasing 0.6. It's still missing from the CVS version, but an options tab for it is in the options menu.
There are some noticable improvements in the options menu. Speed seems to be faster. I think that they are using experimental fast-loading by default.
Keep it up, ATi. Competition is good. I'm really lovin' what I see in the 9X00 series. Keep hammering on improving those Linux drivers while you're at it, because nVidia still has the edge on non-Windows platforms. The day that you release Linux drivers that are on par with those under Windows (as PowerVR and nVidia have done) is the day that I fork out $400 for your car. Rest assured that I will, as long as you back the product.
You hit the nail on the head. It's good to hear responses from knowledgeable users with proper configurations for once. My experiences are and have been the same as yours.
"I usually run at 1024x768 at 16bpp. If I'm correct, it would lag a s3Virge a bit. But I would not expect to lag a ATI (4MB-pci) rage, or a 128 All in wonder (32mb-AGP), or a Matrox Millenium 2 (8MB-agp). The gui was faster on faster cards (of course), but that slowness was still there."
You've got a serious problem if you're trying to game on any of those cards. First of all, none of them are up to par for anything X, in my opinion. Yes, you'll get RENDER, XVideo, and other extensions out of most (if not all) of them. But they all are very poor cards with poor, but functional drivers. 3D support sucks and you might as well do software rendering for all of it.
Frankly, your remarks hold no ground until you come up with some properly supported hardware to base your comments on. nVidia, maybe PowerVR or ATi. Maybe a newer Matrox chipset.
I'm beginning to think that you are running a framebuffer driver. I don't think that you've installed or chosen the proper driver for your desktop. This is a common problem for many Linux users, and they blame X/KDE/Gnome/Whatever for it. By default, if RedHat/Suse/Mandrake/Whatever won't detect your card, they will sometimes default to a framebuffer driver or something slow. Framebuffer drivers produce that "water" effect.
It's not just you. My Kyro 2 spits out 3D much faster in Linux. MPlayer gets faster video playback with less CPU load than Windows Media Player. My experiences have been the same on properly supported cards.
(Not directed at least poster)
I doubt that id software would alienate their primary Windows user-base just to blatently attempt to make the games faster in Linux. I doubt that nVidia would do the same with their drivers. Some of us have done comparisons. We've all read the Tom's hardware benchmarks (and others) that back our theory that OpenGL on Linux may just be faster than Windows. In the same respect, Windows has D3D which is topping OpenGL *on that platform*. So it shouldn't really be an issue for people, unless we get crummy D3D-->OGL wrappers like in UT2003 for Linux (I'm still bitter about that one).
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Another flame from an uninformed troll...
For the record, my OpenGL is faster on Linux than it was in Windows. My framerates in Wolf3D easily top those of Windows.
I've run recent versions of XF86 on old 486 or p90 notebooks using Blackbox or Windowmaker. It's fast as hell. But KDE or Gnome 2 require a reasonably modern machine (as Windows 2000/XP does).
No klunk or lag here. I suppose that you just aren't ready for Linux. Don't worry. It will be user friendly enough for you soon.
I'm just waiting for the next Slackware release. There's no sense in me hacking up my perfect Slack 8.1/Dropline Gnome machine for XRandR support.;) When it's in Slack 9, it'll be done right.
Byte-code interpretor is still the only way to go. It creates lovely fonts that are (in my opinion) on par with OS-X. And the level of control over antialiasing is exceptional. Freetype2's hacked autohinter has improved a bit, but I still prefer the byte-code interpreter for CRT displays. LCDs look pretty darn good without the byte-code interpreter, as long as you fire up subpixel rendering.
Keep in mind that without the RENDER extension, antialiasing will really cause a lot more load and slower draw-in. But it isn't really much of a problem. 99% of cards out there have RENDER supported now. ATI/S3/nVidia/PowerVR/Intel/Matrox. It isn't too much of a problem for most.
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There are even more platformers on the Gamecube than that. The Sonic games have been/are ported. The Harry Potter game is loads of fun. Luigi's Mansion was a Launch title. A Kirby game is on the way. A Pitfall game is in the works.
I'm willing to bet that it has more platformers than even the PS2.
He was also the star of Donnie Darko, also listed on his IMDB profile.
If you haven't seen Donnie Darko, *go out and rent it today*! It is probably one of the best films of 2002. He does a superb job in it, and it is probably one of the most intellectually stimulating small/med. budget films that you'll see of late. The storyline is superb, even with the occasional bit of teenage-grade humor that reflects growing up in the '80s.
Any modern card can pass Dolby Digital decoding to the DSP through a simple driver update. The big issue is paying for the license. It's expensive, and isn't practical for most card makers to include it when they've got similar routines that don't require the extra cost.
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Not all nForce APUs support Dolby Digital. There is a reason why they are overlooked. The drivers have had serious problems with most applications that they are used in when it comes to mixing stereo audio to multi-speaker sound systems. Just ask anyone that uses an MSI nForce board if they can play Winamp and get audio mixed to each speaker (in all instances).
Also... The name "nForce" APU is misleading. Most of them are just rebranded Realtek ALC650 chips. nVidia has a deal with them to sell a bunch of lan and audio chips. Frankly, they are over-rated and have poor drivers. But they get the job done.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.
Yeah. Almost all PCI sound devices will work fine in Linux. The problem is that you won't get SPDIF with all chips. The big kicker is also that sound chips are like Winmodems and use software mixing in Windows. The only standard chips that use hardware real-time mixing are those from the Creative Live/Audigy line, Yamaha DSPs, and now the Envy24HT chips that are being used in professional applications and consumer cards like the M-Audio (Midiman) Revolution. If you don't have one of these, there is a good chance that you'll be fighting with slow sound mixers (artsd and esd) or buying a real-time software mixer called the Virtual Mixer PRO from 4-Front with their OSS drivers (good product though).
My suggestion to anyone looking to buy a top notch soundcard is to get the M-Audio Revolution from newegg.com for $100. It has the best sound quality and the drivers are progressing really quickly. ALSA and 4-Front are offering fabulous drivers for these products.
Creative stopped being "the standard" when "Soundblaster compatible" cards were no longer an issue.
Creative has one thing going for them. They have the largest penetration of the OEM market, at least on computers that aren't totally budget grade. Even now you see the old Ensoniq chips in VIA integrated boards. Frankly, Creative's products have been blow the competition for years. I'm not sure why people keep buying them. Turtle Beach, Hercules, even Philips have all had better cards.
I agree about the Yamaha thing though. They're cheap and have hardware, real-time mixing. That is the best thing that you can have in Linux.
The default kernel OSS driver doesn't have SPDIF out. Try ALSA or the OSS commerical. I have the OSS commercial drivers from 4-Front, and these features work, as do the rear speaker sets on my Santa Cruz (CS4630 based).
If you are interested in the drivers from www.opensound.com, I'd specifically ask the guys at 4-Front which features that they support.
But you will not get optical output from the kernel OSS drivers.
Not so. The M-Audio cards with the ENVY24HT work fine with ALSA, as do their older chips. Look for it in the "Midiman" section, which is their old name.
The Revolution, in my opinion, will be *the multiplatform* audio chip in the coming months. The sound quality tops all of the consumer level audio options. Technically, it is very much like the professional cards, but misses the breakout cables. Other than that, it's built on the same hardware.
Unlike the SB Audigy2, the Revolution is a real 24-bit/192kHz, 24-bit/96kHz recording card.
These are just some observations.
First of all, Gnome does have a menu editor. It just isn't where Windows users would expect for it to be. He clearly announced that Windows was his primary desktop, so that's probably why it was tough to find. Nautilus can open up "applications:///", which will point to the apps menu. You can right click and add folders or shortcuts. Most distributions should have the option listed in the control panel or something else. If RedHat doesn't have it, perhaps they should be to blame.
GTK2 is faster for many of us. I suppose that the results are dependant upon a proper system config. Same with Matacity. With proper drivers, mine draws perfectly fast.
In terms of stability, Gnome 2 as a whole seems more stable than XP, in my opinion, due to not being reliant on the kernel the way Windows is. But it isn't without its faults. The taskbar tools crash at times, but the crash recovery is very good when it does. If a tool dies, the panel fixes it, and everything is fine. Windows still has a nasty habit of losing icons in the tray if it recovers.
I'm not too sure that I feel his "I dislike GTK+ and C" comment is very valid either. It sounds rather biased, actually.
Talk to your hardware manufactuerer and ask them to stop making chips that do mixing in software only.
/dev/dsp to a software device. Upgraders can get more virtual DSP devices and loopback record devices (record anything you play to a DSP device, evenm if it wasn't meant to be recorded).
/dev/sndstat
Your mixing under windows is an *illusion*. It's a DirectX trick that was implemented a few years ago to cut costs and take a "Winmodem" approach to making sound hardware. Only a few select sound chips do real hardware mixing. There are ALSA programs in development that will mix in software just as fast as DirectSound.
If you don't have a problem with spending a couple of dollars on quality drivers, head to opensound.com. That will solve your MP3/IM problem immediately. Their drivers come with a CPU controlled mixer that is real-time and supports many streams at one time. It automatically redirects any touches to
Linux users aren't aware that the problem is *in their hardware*. Kernel sound developers insisted on not having a standard mixer, so you've had to suffer for it. 4-Front's mixer corrects this. ALSA's JACK does a similar thing.
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For your viewing pleasure:
########@katana:~$ cat
OSS/Linux 3.9.7h (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-2002
License serial number: #######
Drivers: MIX CRYSTAL
This copy of OSS is licensed to #########
Build: 2.4.20
Card config:
Crystal CS4280 at 0xe2100000 irq 5
OSS Virtual Mixer Pro
Audio devices:
0: Crystal Semiconductor CS4630 Rev. B (DUPLEX)
1: Crystal Semiconductor CS4630 Rev. B (playback only)
Open by 0/VMIX
2: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #0 (GRC2)
Open by 629/xmms
3: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #1 (GRC2)
4: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #2 (GRC2)
5: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #3 (GRC2)
6: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #4 (GRC2)
7: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #5 (GRC2)
8: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #6 (GRC2)
9: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #7 (GRC2)
10: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #8 (GRC2)
11: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #9 (GRC2)
12: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #10 (GRC2)
13: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #11 (GRC2)
14: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #12 (GRC2)
15: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #13 (GRC2)
16: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #14 (GRC2)
17: OSS Virtual Mixer v2.5 Playback CH #15 (GRC2)
18: Virtual Mixer v2.5 Loopback Record CH #0 (GRC2)
19: Virtual Mixer v2.5 Loopback Record CH #1 (GRC2)
20: Virtual Mixer v2.5 Loopback Record CH #2 (GRC2)
21: Virtual Mixer v2.5 Loopback Record CH #3 (GRC2)
Synth devices:
0: OSS Virtual Synth v2.5
Midi devices:
0: CS4280 MIDI Port
Timers:
0: System clock
1: SoftOSS
Mixers:
0: AC97 Mixer (CS4297A)
1: CS4630 AC97 Secondary (CS4294)
2: Virtual Mixer
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Actually, it supports more devices than that. I'm just using its features very liberally.
The APIs are good. The effort from the *community* has been strong. The problem is the manufacturers. They design inexpensive DirectX "winmodem"-type sound devices that are only designed to mix one chanel, yada-yada. There aren't many hardware developers that have taken the time to make satisfactory drivers. Cirrus Logic did it with some of their chipsets (but they were crippled). Creative made a valiant effort with the Live series, but many of the envolved employees aren't with the company anymore.
What you are mentioning about "new hardware" is often incorrect. It is there, but comes at a price. 4-Front tech supports new cards, and they are even working on drivers for the brand new M-Audio (Midiman for you "professional" audio heads) cards. Actually, they probably have drivers for the Revolution as we speak... It's a high-end consumer card. Actually, the Envy chips are being used in a lot of products; M-Audio, Terratec, Hoontech...
It's hard to develop open source drivers when everyone has an intellectual property stick up their ass. But I will say that there are some quality ALSA drivers out there, and there are some Quality drivers from 4-Front at Opensound.com. It just depends on the device that you are using. You can't expect some Intel audio chip that nobody cares about to perform up to par. Stability isn't a problem, if you have good drivers. My OSS drivers for my Santa Cruz are rock solid, and have most (and a few extra) features that they had under Windows 2000.
The latency is good with proper drivers. The features are there with the right card. You just have to be picky about what you buy, because you can't expect the manufacturer to stand up and write some drivers. But I think that companies like nVidia have paved the way for hardware support on a multi-platform scale. Graphicws card companies are getting better at it, and it is just a matter of time before more sound companies step up.
Considering the fact that Microsoft killed Corel (WordPerfect) for the sake of its own products, I don't think that they really care about the loss. They've made more than enough to cover the extra 90%.
Couldn't that be the real reason that they invested in the company? Microsoft always gets its fingers into the competition when they feel that they could be a threat.
I was tired of waiting too, so I built it for Slackware Linux and Dropline Gnome from the 1.4a CVS. It is becoming better, but I have a feeling tha they are going to implement a better download manager before releasing 0.6. It's still missing from the CVS version, but an options tab for it is in the options menu.
There are some noticable improvements in the options menu. Speed seems to be faster. I think that they are using experimental fast-loading by default.
Here. Take a look.
Phoenix.
You can just use a nightly build of Phoenix, but I don't think that it is as far ahead as this CVS version. Rest assured, it is improving.
Cool! A Counterstrike server! Now, where's the Linux client that we've been asking for for years, Valve?
Keep it up, ATi. Competition is good. I'm really lovin' what I see in the 9X00 series. Keep hammering on improving those Linux drivers while you're at it, because nVidia still has the edge on non-Windows platforms. The day that you release Linux drivers that are on par with those under Windows (as PowerVR and nVidia have done) is the day that I fork out $400 for your car. Rest assured that I will, as long as you back the product.
103 which were okayed by AOL because they made the company more money.
Here come the Deskstar trolls.
The Linux kernel, by default, does not load sound support modules if there is no soundcard. Please, get your facts straight.
I'm sorry, but there is only one OS that is cross compatible with PDAs, desktops, phones, servers, and laptops. And it isn't Windows.
You hit the nail on the head. It's good to hear responses from knowledgeable users with proper configurations for once. My experiences are and have been the same as yours.
You've got a serious problem if you're trying to game on any of those cards. First of all, none of them are up to par for anything X, in my opinion. Yes, you'll get RENDER, XVideo, and other extensions out of most (if not all) of them. But they all are very poor cards with poor, but functional drivers. 3D support sucks and you might as well do software rendering for all of it.
Frankly, your remarks hold no ground until you come up with some properly supported hardware to base your comments on. nVidia, maybe PowerVR or ATi. Maybe a newer Matrox chipset.
I'm beginning to think that you are running a framebuffer driver. I don't think that you've installed or chosen the proper driver for your desktop. This is a common problem for many Linux users, and they blame X/KDE/Gnome/Whatever for it. By default, if RedHat/Suse/Mandrake/Whatever won't detect your card, they will sometimes default to a framebuffer driver or something slow. Framebuffer drivers produce that "water" effect.
It's not just you. My Kyro 2 spits out 3D much faster in Linux. MPlayer gets faster video playback with less CPU load than Windows Media Player. My experiences have been the same on properly supported cards.
(Not directed at least poster)
I doubt that id software would alienate their primary Windows user-base just to blatently attempt to make the games faster in Linux. I doubt that nVidia would do the same with their drivers. Some of us have done comparisons. We've all read the Tom's hardware benchmarks (and others) that back our theory that OpenGL on Linux may just be faster than Windows. In the same respect, Windows has D3D which is topping OpenGL *on that platform*. So it shouldn't really be an issue for people, unless we get crummy D3D-->OGL wrappers like in UT2003 for Linux (I'm still bitter about that one).
Another flame from an uninformed troll...
For the record, my OpenGL is faster on Linux than it was in Windows. My framerates in Wolf3D easily top those of Windows.
I've run recent versions of XF86 on old 486 or p90 notebooks using Blackbox or Windowmaker. It's fast as hell. But KDE or Gnome 2 require a reasonably modern machine (as Windows 2000/XP does).
No klunk or lag here. I suppose that you just aren't ready for Linux. Don't worry. It will be user friendly enough for you soon.
I'm just waiting for the next Slackware release. There's no sense in me hacking up my perfect Slack 8.1/Dropline Gnome machine for XRandR support. ;) When it's in Slack 9, it'll be done right.
Byte-code interpretor is still the only way to go. It creates lovely fonts that are (in my opinion) on par with OS-X. And the level of control over antialiasing is exceptional. Freetype2's hacked autohinter has improved a bit, but I still prefer the byte-code interpreter for CRT displays. LCDs look pretty darn good without the byte-code interpreter, as long as you fire up subpixel rendering.
Keep in mind that without the RENDER extension, antialiasing will really cause a lot more load and slower draw-in. But it isn't really much of a problem. 99% of cards out there have RENDER supported now. ATI/S3/nVidia/PowerVR/Intel/Matrox. It isn't too much of a problem for most.