On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:48:21 +0100 Laurent Bechir <laurent.bec...@madonie.org> wrote:
> Perhaps Linden should put something like "You will have a better > experience with Second Life if you choose NVidia graphic card". I > know it's quite stupid, but from what I've read there is not a chance > that we get good support for ATI cards and dynamic shadows which is > quite disapointing. not at all, last MAC Lion beta have fixed a lot for ATI/AMD cards of R6xx and R7xx family, linux have a module to support all missing GLX extensions (fglrx-glx as alternative to radeon module full opensource, emulatign via software all missed by hardware acceleration), windows ATI/AMD driver emulate OpenGL via DirectX (not in a smart way, imho, as on MSDN DD374297 the emulation is a translation 1:1 from GLX extension to windows DX functions, skipping where DX have a missing implementation) i've no windows, but installing MESA drivers drom www.mesa3d.org should extend GL functions (never tested, but on support page say "Direct3D" and on oct/04 release show a initial support for R6xx and R7xx ATI/AMD chipsets), extending DX with a full OpenGL2.1 set. (there is too a confortablem word like "very experimental"... but if somebody is so brave to test it...) all above should be readen under a giant "imho" umbrella, as said i've no windows machine, cannot test if work... PS: next hardware upgrade take a look on nvidia ;) _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
