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OpenGL 3.0 might really happen in 7.12/8.0. We are quite close.
I am not going to do any significant work for r300g, I consider that driver done. I will still fix bugs though. Radeon 9550 is a pretty slow card and no driver will make that fast.
Two big features which are missing in r300g are Hyper-Z (mostly works, but I wasn't able to fix it completely, so I am not going to enable it by default) and MSAA.
If somebody has any issues with r300g, he/she should report bugs at bugs.freedesktop.org. Reporting bugs on forums is pointless. GPU lockups are usually caused by the kernel DRM, not r300g, and are usually chip-specific (otherwise they would be fixed right now).
I would rather not buy an AGP R600 card. I have heard it did not work well with open drivers. No idea what the status is now. Better get a PCIe one.
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Thanks for the report regarding r300g.
Originally posted by marek View PostI would rather not buy an AGP R600 card. I have heard it did not work well with open drivers. No idea what the status is now. Better get a PCIe one.
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Originally posted by marek View PostHyper-Z (mostly works, but I wasn't able to fix it completely, so I am not going to enable it by default)## VGA ##
AMD: X1950XTX, HD3870, HD5870
Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)
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Originally posted by curaga View PostIt should show up in other tests too, I don't think one would need etqw specifically to see the difference (or lack of).
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Originally posted by Azpegath View Post+1 I guess. Now that I think about it
I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound like an ass, but why not buy a new card? It's possible to find a modern card for $80 which will still blow your old card out of the waters. There's even a silent (fan-less) Radeon 5450 card there for $50.
Performance comparison of graphics cards for less than $100.
I think it's great that the old stuff still works in Linux (especially since a lot of people don't see any gain in switching), but is the hardware still relevant enough to support it when compared to newer hardware? I do agree that games shouldn't crash your system, but have you tried if it crashes with Catalyst drivers? Can you get a crash dump so you can send it to the devs and recreate the scenario?
The other reason i said i would like to see improvement on older hardware is to cover for scenarios where people are unable to upgrade their graphics card, such as on a laptop. And by improvement, I mainly mean bug fixing and sufficient video acceleration.
Also, thanks for informative post, marek. Appreciate your work done on r300g. Hyper-Z still causes tiled corruptions for me, but I'm not fussed. Yea, I should file bugs where appropriate, not on forums as where i have been trying.
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Originally posted by Yfrwlf View PostI petition Blizzard to support Linux by releasing Diablo 3 for it!
Seriously, the last AAA title for Linux was how long ago now? Of course, it depends on what you call AAA. Throw us a frickin bone here though, Blizzard. It wouldn't be hard.
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Originally posted by Azpegath View PostYes I agree. But there must be some issue with it (or just suits deciding it's not worth it based on that they've never heard of Linux) since they don't. I mean, Icculus was porting all UT games before, but they chose not do it anymore. And I agree that the OS X port shouldn't be overly hard to port to Linux, except that while OS X is an extremely controlled platform Linux is the most fragmented one there is.
A note on the latter: It's high time someone did packaging right. Adding repositories/PPAs and thus giving random software projects root access to my computer isn't what I call fun. You shouldn't have to be root to install most programs.
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Originally posted by Yfrwlf View PostAdding repositories/PPAs and thus giving random software projects root access to my computer isn't what I call fun. You shouldn't have to be root to install most programs.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostIn this day of "personal computing", this doesn't matter that much. Malware doesn't need root access since it's interested on your user data.
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