[SuSE Linux] R: 3D cards
Both nVidia and 3dfx have promised "full" 3D for Linux / XFree86 in the future, but until then, I have to use Windoze for games. -- Are u sure that, even after this, you will change platform for games? A 3D support doesn't mean that games will be ported to Linux, considered that it's still not spread enough between home users, and that the 900f games are built over Direct3D... I don't think that M$oft will port DirectX to Lin (I doubt it would be possible, either), nor that Electronic Arts etc. will
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Germano Rizzo wrote:
Both nVidia and 3dfx have promised "full" 3D for Linux / XFree86 in the future, but until then, I have to use Windoze for games. -- Are u sure that, even after this, you will change platform for games? A 3D support doesn't mean that games will be ported to Linux, considered that it's still not spread enough between home users, and that the 900f games are built over Direct3D... I don't think that M$oft will port DirectX to Lin (I doubt it would be possible, either), nor that Electronic Arts etc. will translate the code for UNIX with the perspective of selling not more than 50'000 copies of a game for this platform... If you successfully use win to play, what could make them suppose you want to change this situation?
You're right. There'll (almost surely) never be a D3D for Linux, and it probably will never replace Win9x as a gaming platform. However, when the time comes when you can buy any 3D card (3dfx, nVidia, ATI, Matrox, etc.) and be sure that it'll be fully OpenGL accelerated in Linux (or in XFree86 itself), things may begin to change. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
Pedro Timoteo wrote:
Germano Rizzo wrote:
You're right. There'll (almost surely) never be a D3D for Linux, and it probably will never replace Win9x as a gaming platform.
Sure. 3D games uses D3D. But there is also exellent 2D games wich already works with Wine using Wine DirectDraw Internal emulation. I think about Warcraft and StarCraft :-)...
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