Joel Gluth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Short form: is it/will it soon become feasible to run
> hardware-accelerated stuff like Quake[II] with just a TNT card? Or should
> I just shrug, buy a nice Voodoo II, and pick up a nice 2D card at the
> same time?
There was a thread about this a few weeks ago on this mailing list, and I
think that the conclusion was that there is no 3d support from Nvidia for
the Riva TNT chipset, but that they recently decided to release
non-obfuscated Xserver code and maybe there's hope.
I have a Voodoo I card (got it new for $39 after a bunch of rebates!) and
it works OK with Linux Quake II version 3.20, running as root. (And there
are exploits for Quake II - ID left a backdoor in Quake II :-() so even the
Voodoo solution is somewhat suboptimal.
Later,
Dale
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