Re: Video Card
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:26 -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote:
>
> > " Raymond A. Ingles" wrote:
> > > ...from what I've gathered 2D support is a little immature, and it's
> > > really hard to render into a window...
> >
> > Actually, the Voodoo3 drivers have been incorporated into Xfree86 3.3.4...
> > atleast, that's what the Xfree86 FAQ says.
>
> Okay, cool. I'll remember that. Still, I remember reading that rendering
> 3D into a window isn't the Voodoo's stong suit. But for full-speed
> hardware rendering in Linux, they're (for now) the only game in town.
If you have an AMD CPU or a not particularly high spec CPU Voodoo3 is by
all accounts the best choice, since it isn't as dependent on the host CPU.
According to Darryll Strauss (the developer of the linux version of Glide
and the X sever) voodoo3 has probably the best 2d performance on the market
(well, he would say that, wouldn't he ;)
Hopefully the V3 2k card I ordered yesterday should arrive any day now, and
with a bit of luck it should be overclockable so that it runs at the same
speed as the 3k model.
Cheers
Dave
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