Not just that, J.C. was funded Mesa developers and give driver optimization instructions for Q3:
But Yeah, 10 years ago! Nearly after that nvidia stolen some ideas, but give full source:
Today nvidia blob is only one optimizated blob on earth who can run at acceptible performance another blob. (methinks - Rage The Game).
May 13, 1999
May 1999 - John Carmack of id Software, Inc. has made a donation of
US$10,000 to the Mesa project to support its continuing development.
Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL 3D graphics library and id's
newest game, Quake 3 Arena, will use Mesa as the 3D renderer on Linux.
The donation will go to Keith Whitwell, who has been optimizing Mesa to
improve performance on 3d hardware. Thanks to Keith's work, many
applications using Mesa 3.1 will see a dramatic performance increase
over Mesa 3.0. The donation will allow Keith to continue working on
Mesa full time for some time to come.
For more information about Mesa see www.mesa3d.org. For more
information about id Software, Inc. see www.idsoftware.com.
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This donation from John/id is very generous. Keith and I are very
grateful.
May 1999 - John Carmack of id Software, Inc. has made a donation of
US$10,000 to the Mesa project to support its continuing development.
Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL 3D graphics library and id's
newest game, Quake 3 Arena, will use Mesa as the 3D renderer on Linux.
The donation will go to Keith Whitwell, who has been optimizing Mesa to
improve performance on 3d hardware. Thanks to Keith's work, many
applications using Mesa 3.1 will see a dramatic performance increase
over Mesa 3.0. The donation will allow Keith to continue working on
Mesa full time for some time to come.
For more information about Mesa see www.mesa3d.org. For more
information about id Software, Inc. see www.idsoftware.com.
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This donation from John/id is very generous. Keith and I are very
grateful.
May 1, 1999
John Carmack made an interesting .plan update yesterday:
"I put together a document on optimizing OpenGL drivers for Q3 that should be helpful to the various Linux 3D teams.
http://www.quake3arena.com/news/glopt.html"
John Carmack made an interesting .plan update yesterday:
"I put together a document on optimizing OpenGL drivers for Q3 that should be helpful to the various Linux 3D teams.
http://www.quake3arena.com/news/glopt.html"
June 2, 1999
nVidia has released some Linux binaries for xfree86 3.3.3.1, along with the full source, which includes GLX acceleration based on Mesa 3.0. They can be downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/h...e_drivers.html.
June 7, 1999
RPMS of the nVidia RIVA server can be found at ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/misc/nVidia/.
nVidia has released some Linux binaries for xfree86 3.3.3.1, along with the full source, which includes GLX acceleration based on Mesa 3.0. They can be downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/h...e_drivers.html.
June 7, 1999
RPMS of the nVidia RIVA server can be found at ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/misc/nVidia/.
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