Originally posted by PsynoKhi0
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On the other hand, the open drivers can only continue to improve. We still have people putting devel effort into R100, so I'm sure there are many years left in the community developer interest for r600 and r700. Fortunately, r600g already has pretty good feature parity with the other mesa drivers, and it will in all likelihood be receiving OpenCL and Hierarchical Z support sometime in 2012-2013 timeframe. Performance will probably continue to inch up, and you may be able to play new games (or old ones) that would otherwise not be playable with Catalyst. It's nice to have options.
I wonder, if Gallium3d were closer to being able to provide a graphics driver solution on Windows, would the Windows old-Radeon crowd contribute to Mesa enough to enable a WDDM, D3D9/D3D10 open source driver on Windows? Kind of a crazy idea, I know, but if the support issue is such a huge deal, you'd think people would want to leverage the existing code that works well on Linux.
Or, you know, actually run Linux instead of Windows...
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