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  • #21
    Originally posted by blackout23 View Post
    After using Linux for about 4-5 year now I still don't fully understand how graphics stack actually work and what's up with Gallium, Mesa, KMS, DRI und DDX drivers etc.
    The foontnotes :
    KMS - Kernel ModeSetting = the way the correct resolution is set up for specific screens. (when you change resolution, this handles it at hardware level)
    Mesa - the (only) OSS implementation of OpenGL.
    Gallium - a sort of layer between graphic cards and a graphics API. The graphic driver only has to 'support' gallium3D.
    DRI - how software communicates with the hardware.

    But do read the links posted by chithanh.

    A comparison between open source AMD and catalyst might be interesting. Their open source drivers aren't that slow to begin with. They might beat the blob, when performance doubles.
    It's on its way. Michael gave us a useless preview. and BTW : nothing is stopping you from installing PTS and benchmarking yourself

    D3D9 for Gallium sounds really nice. Knowing the number of awesome games based on it, losing them would be a huge loss.

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    • #22
      Originally posted by Mike Frett View Post
      It doesn't matter if it's on it's death-bed. They're lots of D3D9 Games that people could play, remember even win98 has DX9 support. That's a lot of Games for people to play, fun games, unlike most redundant cash-grab garbage today.
      Win98 only supports DirectX 8.1.

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      • #23
        Originally posted by Vim_User View Post
        Win98 only supports DirectX 8.1.
        It does indeed support DirectX 9.0c:

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        • #24
          Originally posted by Mike Frett View Post
          It doesn't matter if it's on it's death-bed. They're lots of D3D9 Games that people could play, remember even win98 has DX9 support. That's a lot of Games for people to play, fun games, unlike most redundant cash-grab garbage today.
          Majority of games right now support a minimum of DX9 level graphics. Any games being made in the future I hope will have Linux support. Would like to see how Gabe Newell's Steam Box might change developers minds to start supporting Linux.

          Right now a lot of people, including myself, don't use Linux because too many games run piss slow. I have a Linux machine sitting on the side, to see how the Linux world is doing. A 100% speed up of DX9 games would certainly make me want to install Linux as a primary OS on my PC. I personally couldn't care about DX10/DX11 at the moment.

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          • #25
            DX9 for proprietary drivers

            Is there patent problems about DirectX ?

            If not, and as most of the proprietary driver code is shared between operating systems, Nvidia and AMD just need to "enable it" for Linux builds ?

            If the patch gets accepted by Wine and Mesa, and people begin to use it, it might be worth it for NVidia to enable it in their binary blob.

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            • #26
              Originally posted by Congelli501 View Post
              Is there patent problems about DirectX ?

              If not, and as most of the proprietary driver code is shared between operating systems, Nvidia and AMD just need to "enable it" for Linux builds ?
              Direct3D is not shipped by GPU manufacturers but by Microsoft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#Compatibility

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              • #27
                Originally posted by Congelli501 View Post
                Is there patent problems about DirectX ?

                If not, and as most of the proprietary driver code is shared between operating systems, Nvidia and AMD just need to "enable it" for Linux builds ?

                If the patch gets accepted by Wine and Mesa, and people begin to use it, it might be worth it for NVidia to enable it in their binary blob.
                Don't confuse Direct3D with DirectX. DirectX is much more.

                DirectX 11 actually sounds more like it is something for Linux.

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                • #28
                  Is a great year to be using open source drivers, a great year indeed.

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                  • #29
                    Originally posted by entropy View Post
                    It does indeed support DirectX 9.0c:

                    http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/downl....aspx?id=34429
                    I stand corrected.

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                    • #30
                      Originally posted by Serafean View Post
                      The foontnotes :
                      KMS - Kernel ModeSetting = the way the correct resolution is set up for specific screens. (when you change resolution, this handles it at hardware level)
                      Mesa - the (only) OSS implementation of OpenGL.
                      Gallium - a sort of layer between graphic cards and a graphics API. The graphic driver only has to 'support' gallium3D.
                      DRI - how software communicates with the hardware.

                      But do read the links posted by chithanh.

                      It's on its way. Michael gave us a useless preview. and BTW : nothing is stopping you from installing PTS and benchmarking yourself

                      D3D9 for Gallium sounds really nice. Knowing the number of awesome games based on it, losing them would be a huge loss.
                      I'm using a GTX 580 in my rig. It would be really cool if NVIDIA could implement something like Gallium does in the blob and speed up Wine 2x. It would make pretty much everything playable in terms of performance. I tried wine with Diablo 3 once it it couldn't even keep a steady 60 FPS. It was going from 30-50 which feels pretty laggy. On Windows it would put out easily around 150 FPS.

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