Nvidia has released the specs to their cards? ALL the registers etc? Where can I find them?
I've also been under the impression that 3dfx cards speedwise are the only choice under linux. I know my banshee runs Q3test, Unreal Tournament (through wine), and Quake2 under linux great. So isn't a really fast 3dfx binary glide better than the others?
It's not. Myth II uses Glide. 3Dfx is actually unique in being one of the last people to *not* have a complete set of OpenGL drivers; that's why they have their "MiniGL" to run Quake* games.
That's not right; 3dfx has had a complete non beta OpenGL ICD out for months now. The reason they have a MiniGL is the same reason that Matrox has made their TurboGL (aka, MiniGL)--because it's much easier to optimize a opengl subset for particular games than it is to optimize an entire ICD.
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Nvidia has released the specs to their cards? ALL the registers etc? Where can I find them?
I've also been under the impression that 3dfx cards speedwise are the only choice under linux. I know my banshee runs Q3test, Unreal Tournament (through wine), and Quake2 under linux great. So isn't a really fast 3dfx binary glide better than the others?
It's not. Myth II uses Glide. 3Dfx is actually unique in being one of the last people to *not* have a complete set of OpenGL drivers; that's why they have their "MiniGL" to run Quake* games.
That's not right; 3dfx has had a complete non beta OpenGL ICD out for months now. The reason they have a MiniGL is the same reason that Matrox has made their TurboGL (aka, MiniGL)--because it's much easier to optimize a opengl subset for particular games than it is to optimize an entire ICD.