Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > 1. is that correct?
yes i believe it is. > the website also says that glide apps like myth II or UT won't work with the > voodoo5 driver. that is NOT ok. amazingly, it doesn't say if glide support > is planned for the future. > > 2. is glide support for the voodoo5 planned for the future? glide 2x i used by Myth II and UT and virtually all other glide games/apps. the new voodoo does not support glide2x but it runs glide3x which last i saw not much supports. UT does run on the voodoo5 but you must use the OpenGL drivers. i dont think glide2x support is planned. if you don't like it dont use it. > the website also says that mesa 2.* games, like quake II, won't work with the > voodoo5 driver. this is NOT ok either. i wouldn't be suprised. although i havent researched it myself. > 3. is this planned for the future? i dont think so. > 4. it sounds like just about the only 3d game that will run on the voodoo5 is > quake 3. is that right? UT will too, as well most any real OpenGL game/app. Quake II i dont think(could be wrong) had real opengl support, instead it used a special opengl-like driver to give GL support. > 5. is there any official or unofficial time frame for the voodoo5 driver to be > finished? not that i've seen. > > 6. 3dfx says it open sourced the specs and drivers for the voodoo 1, 2 and 3. > doesn't say anything about the 4 and 5. are these boards also being open > sourced? while i dont see specs on the voodoo4/5 i see their texture compression documentation available as well as open sourced X servers and glide for voodoo 4/5. > 7. is there a time frame for the beta voodoo3 dri drivers to be finished? > i've been reading that they're under development for almost a year now. id suggest contacting 3dfx or their newsgroups on this one. i for one do not like the situation with the voodoo4/5 either, but i also don't like the situation with any of the Nvidia cards, as a result i am using a voodoo3 2000, and plan to upgrade to a voodoo3 3500 soon, and don't plan to go beyond that for quite a while. Xfree86 4.0 and linux 2.4 are not something i am going to use anytime soon. i value a stable system :) check news.lokigames.com in the newsgroup loki.games.ut i believe, i participate there a lot and you can get UT questions answered there pretty quick(the server is down atm though.) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
