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Does it only work with 3dfx chipsets? or am i doing something wrong, cause
it wont use my Geforce2 MX 64

Chris Bergman wrote:

Does it only work with 3dfx chipsets? or am i doing something wrong, cause
it wont use my Geforce2 MX 64

Correct, current only 3dfx cards have acceleration (glide).
it will ‘work’ if you start it from the command line though… but fps
would be like… 0.5? :stuck_out_tongue:

/Johan

Chris Bergman:
Does it only work with 3dfx chipsets? or am i doing something wrong, cause
it wont use my Geforce2 MX 64

phearbear:
Correct, current only 3dfx cards have acceleration (glide).
it will ‘work’ if you start it from the command line though… but fps
would be like… 0.5? > :stuck_out_tongue:

/Johan

pop:
iv put this idea before, but as yet its not been taken generally onboard, or its merits (as a short term fix at least) discused by capable 3rd partys, its simple, the glide API is open source, widely available docs and easy to impliment (hence RTP having it included)
there exists several glide wrappers (of varying quality , admited
but non the less working) available for wintel Os`s.

it should?/would? be rather easy for several RTP 3rd partys here to
collectivly develop a Glide based wrapper to generic Photon 3D driver,
weather that could be a single generic SVGA HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer)
based video driver (prefered option i`d think) or seperate wrappers/drivers
for the 4 or 5 most popular (and available retail today) 3d cards would
need to be worked out here or ddk.graphics for the best and/or quickest
options for the general RTP userbase.

iv not been available (or for some time yet) to the net for some time but ill try and pickup the inn.qnx news as i find time at weekends, im assuming that the RTP SVGA source driver is on the .ddk.graphics
package and that you good 3rd partys might take my proposal of a
general Glide wrapper and perhaps use the SVGA source as a base
for any collaberation that might spring from this post.

i look forward to the feedback here for and against a (tempory?) general
Glide 3D HAL driver for all 3d hardware, see you next collection.


later friends.

Paul May, Manchester, UK,
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