Re: OFFTOPIC: which 3D card to buy

2000-03-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:36:34PM +0100, Marcus Sundberg wrote: > > Somebody said the "proper" way to resize a window in GL involved shutting > > down the GL context, resizing the window, then recreating it. Perhaps > > this is to get around software bugs, but it sounds like a royal PITA to > >

Re: OFFTOPIC: which 3D card to buy

2000-03-07 Thread Marcus Sundberg
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Somebody said the "proper" way to resize a window in GL involved shutting > down the GL context, resizing the window, then recreating it. Perhaps > this is to get around software bugs, but it sounds like a royal PITA to > deal with in the code. Resizi

Re: OFFTOPIC: which 3D card to buy

2000-03-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 05:08:59PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > > > > > The g400 has an advantage however in that I have yet to > > > > > convinced this thing (Voodoo3) to run in a window. When I tell > > > > > it to run in a window it ends up full-screen anyway and it tries > > > > > to use thi

Re: OFFTOPIC: which 3D card to buy

2000-03-05 Thread James Simmons
On 5 Mar 2000, Marcus Sundberg wrote: > James A Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The g400 has an advantage however in that I have yet to convinced this > > > > thing (Voodoo3) to run in a window. When I tell it to run in a window it > > > > ends up full-screen anyway and it tries

Re: OFFTOPIC: which 3D card to buy

2000-03-05 Thread Marcus Sundberg
James A Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The g400 has an advantage however in that I have yet to convinced this > > > thing (Voodoo3) to run in a window. When I tell it to run in a window it > > > ends up full-screen anyway and it tries to use this LAME framebuffer copy > > > hack which

Re: OFFTOPIC: which 3D card to buy

2000-02-29 Thread James A Simmons
> True if you want to run fullscreen, and you can live with the other > limitations ie 16 bit colour and Z buffer, and 256x256 textures maximum. > The Voodoo 4 and 5 overcome these limitations however, and I am just waiting > for them to come out... Also the voodoo 4 and 5 have a geometric proce

Re: OFFTOPIC: which 3D card to buy

2000-02-29 Thread Justin Cormack
> > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:26:27AM +0100, Erik Thiele wrote: > > which 3D card should i buy > [.. everything boils down to GL or rather mesa ..] > > Well, you can't go wrong with 3dfx. It's got the most stable highest > performance drivers out there. True if you want to run fullscreen, and

Re: OFFTOPIC: which 3D card to buy

2000-02-29 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:26:27AM +0100, Erik Thiele wrote: > which 3D card should i buy [.. everything boils down to GL or rather mesa ..] Well, you can't go wrong with 3dfx. It's got the most stable highest performance drivers out there. The g400 is just not that fast yet if you want a stabl