Thumbs up 3dfx 1.04.05 BETA !
This is a discussion about Thumbs up 3dfx 1.04.05 BETA ! in the Windows Hardware category; Viola! This BETA has make all D3D score 10%+ and OpenGL scores 5%+ on Q3A. It is glad that 3dfx has finally dump the legacy support of the lowly banshee froom their V3 drivers. watch out for next W9X/W2K official driver release, good stuffs coming!.
Viola! This BETA has make all D3D score 10%+ and OpenGL scores 5%+ on Q3A. It is glad that 3dfx has finally dump the legacy support of the lowly banshee froom their V3 drivers. watch out for next W9X/W2K official driver release, good stuffs coming!
[This message has been edited by tylau (edited 17 April 2000).]
[This message has been edited by tylau (edited 17 April 2000).]
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I'm sorry, but...what language are you speaking, i know you probably don't speak english that well, but can you be a little clearer?
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This is a WINDOWS 2000 message board we speak about WINDOWS 2000 news problems etc
the driver you are speaking about is windows 9x!!!!
so don't bug us with it!
the driver you are speaking about is windows 9x!!!!
so don't bug us with it!
OP
What?! no englisha has been spoken... I am a 3dfx salesman after all. In case you dont know it yet, something like OpenXX is:
3dfx Joins OpenML Initiative Sunday, 16th April
OpenML is a new OS independant programming API like OpenGL or OpenAL. Sounds like companies are sick of the Microsoft treadmill and hope for more open programming standards. In any case 3dfx, 3Dlabs, ATI, Compaq, Discreet, Evans & Sutherland, IBM, Intel, S3, and SGI have joined the "Kronos Group" which hopes to promote the OpenML standard.
Reported by: Bill "Bobcat" Patterson at 5:10pm
3dfx Joins OpenML Initiative Sunday, 16th April
OpenML is a new OS independant programming API like OpenGL or OpenAL. Sounds like companies are sick of the Microsoft treadmill and hope for more open programming standards. In any case 3dfx, 3Dlabs, ATI, Compaq, Discreet, Evans & Sutherland, IBM, Intel, S3, and SGI have joined the "Kronos Group" which hopes to promote the OpenML standard.
Reported by: Bill "Bobcat" Patterson at 5:10pm
OP
Okay, Okay, nupe! A friend of mine shout at me that OpenGL although itself is a OS independent API, the driver to the HAL actually not, when it comes to the display driver, it is to bring different h/w to the same API parity so that they are OS transparent; so the OpenGL display driver actually is OS dependent; so as their performance levels.
This is some sort of off topic here, heading my way to voodoo groups.
This is some sort of off topic here, heading my way to voodoo groups.
