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To: Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com>
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Subject: Re: Hardware accelerated OpenGL using XFree on FreeBSD
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Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com> writes:

> 3dfx carss, Matrox G200/G400 and nvidia cards are supported 
> more or less well. Driver qualitity is also different for
> XFree86 3.3.x series and 4.x series.

I assume 4.x does not perform worse than 3.x does.

> And game playing is the driving force behind present consumer cards.

Very true and very sad. BTW: <http://www.freebsd.org/~3d/> seems to
address the same audience. *}

> perhaps a GeForce is good enough. 

Well, the question stands whether a GeForce would give recognizably
more than the current TNT2. The machine is not used for games but just
some VTK development.

> How does the Win32 version of your card's drivers and the Win32
> version of VTK look in comparison?

Dunno as I don't have Win32 on the machine. 

> I am sure you can buy more expensive cards.

Well, *that's* for sure. But would it give me anything in regard to
XFree86 (4.x)? I don't deem that very probable.

Thanks much for sharing your thoughts.

        Roland


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