Re: ATI Radeon Slowness

l?, 28.06.2003 kl. 05.35 skrev John Shillinglaw:
> I believe I read on the transgaming site that there was a problem with
> ATI cards responding very slowly...
> 
> I noted this problem, but compiled and ran winex anyway since the only
> other card I had ( and no money for another one...) was in another
> machine.
> 
> After experiencing very slow performance from Vampire:Redemption under
> winex, I decided it was time to waste a day swapping cards. I almost
> didn't make it to work on time today because I stayed up all night
> playing the game cause performance with the Nvidia MX 420 card was AS
> GOOD as that under Windows with the Radeon card.
> 
> So, 
> If anyone investigates this problem and needs a tester, I have the old
> Radeon 7000 card in the other PC.

What kind of features does it use? For example, environment mapping is
going to be slow (or even crash) if the drivers do not provide Pbuffers
(GLX_SGIX_pbuffer). I've recently seen that the ATI FireGL drivers
provide ATI_render_texture which would be better than Pbuffers for this
purpose, but I have not been able to find a spec for it. But with a
7000, I presume you're using DRI, not FireGL. In that case, you'll be
out of luck until DRI implements either of those extensions.




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