[SDL] Q on videocards (long reply but some folks might like)

[David Olofson]

On Friday 15 December 2000 18:06, winterlion wrote:
[...]
> Encounters with Matrox suggests they have good hardware - but I
> have no idea what their current chipset's like under Linux. 
> Reviews suggest their performance is not much slower than GeForce2.

Yep; and the usual results indicate that the G400 is less affected by 
higher resolutions, IIRC. However, as you can't get a usable frame 
rate with heavy 3D scenes on either of the cards anyway, that seems 
to be a moot point for gaming at least...

It might be different with other games than those I play 
occasionally, and I haven't compared the G400 to the GeForce2 
personally.


[...]
> 	AGP *G*.  (all my ISA and PCI slots are full... also umm AGP
> 		   has enough bandwidth for highres media streaming :)

Speaking of which; you don't happen to know if the OpenGL drivers 
actually use the busmaster DMA for texture transfers?


//David

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