Linus dropped support for 386 in the kernel, MESA also dropped support for many old GPUs, don't think open source supports things forever.
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Originally posted by xpander View Posti think that decision has come with the gaming perfromance in mind, specialy steamboxes and the like.. nobody sane would use anything older for gaming anyway.
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Originally posted by siavashserverI have to admit that selecting RadeonHD 4890 over Geforce GTX275 was the best decision in my life
Most of the time you had crappy driver support (catalyst as well as the OSS driver) and after all these years of waiting for a decent driver, you now have an obsolete card which you still can't use to its full potential. I'd rather spend $200 every 5 years for a card that actually has a decent driver, than deal with the crap you had to put up with in the last few years.
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Originally posted by Vim_User View PostReally? How does the age of a card affect performance? Do you imply that any of the >400 cards is faster than a GTX260/275/280, just because those are older? And could you tell me which games I can not play with those cards?
but 2xx series are 2008 ...thats more than 5 years old. everyone who is playing games are going to upgrade anyway sooner or later. by the 2016 they are 8 years old already..thats more than one console cycle.
as of now you can play every game.. Metro LL and NS2 might have some perf problems on highest settings but still can be played . but things wont sit forever on opengl 2.1/3.x
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostWhat I don't understand is why they stopped at the 300 series. The 400 series, from my recollection, is (mostly) the same architecture as the 300 but more finely tuned.
NV04 - 71 branch
NV10/NV20 - 96 branch
NV30 - 173 branch
NV40 - 304 branch
NV50 - 340 branch
NVC0 and beyond - mainline
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hi there!
This move makes sense to me. As an owner of an 8800 gts (with the latest drivers always) , the newest release doesn' t give me any extra performance anymore (8000 series released back in 2006 I think). So there I cannot see any problem to stay on the 340 legacy driver( which probably will support new versions of Xorg). Even 300 series are now 5 years old cards (supports up to OpenGL 3.3) and in this case too, I don't think that the the latest drivers will give something more (performance, features etc).
//Sorry for grammar mistakes etc.
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Wow, even now that AMD has had the best performing hardware with open source drivers for quite a while people keep still bashing them as being "unsupported" or "crappy".
Originally posted by GT220 View PostLinus dropped support for 386 in the kernel,
Originally posted by GT220 View PostMESA also dropped support for many old GPUs, don't think open source supports things forever.
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Originally posted by GT220 View PostNo, read the article. Release 340 drivers will be the legacy drivers for all Nvidia 8/9/100/200/300 series GPUs.
Release 340 will be out sometime in the future. Current latest drivers is Release 334.
More like worst decision, Nvidia supports GTX 275 until 2016 where as AMD already dropped driver support for HD4000, but I guess you don't seem to understand that.
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