'Commercial Partners'

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Fri Mar 31 21:13:10 UTC 2006


Le vendredi 31 mars 2006 à 14:47 -0600, Ian Pilcher a écrit :
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > There are a number of other cards, where the situation is worse.
> > Short of running their binary driver, the Matrox parhelia is
> > a really expensive way to run the vesa driver for example.
> > (The mga driver doesn't support anything newer than g550 iirc).
> 
> So why is everybody so hell-bent on making basic desktop functionality
> dependent on 3D performance?

Probably because nowadays using 2D primitives on hardware designed to do
3D is not that much easier and a lot less efficient than doing 3D
directly. At least that's how I understood the 3D people arguments.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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