From: Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) (breatpro at domain exchange.ie.ml.com)
Date: Thu 18 Apr 2002 - 16:22:05 IST
That was the original Mach64 cards ... (which for their day weren't all that
bad !) .... the current crop of Rage Mobility M1's are based on a Mach64
core with a load of other 3D and DVD optimisations ... motion compensation
for MPEG playback etc. 3D certainly hasn't been a problem under $otherOS,
especially HW, that said SW was woeful ... no suprises there ...
P
> -----Original Message-----
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:36:18AM +0100, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)
> mentioned:
> > Um, I was painfully aware that it was M64 based ... that was one of the
> > original posts (until Liam confused the issue with the r128 dri module
> !)
>
> I thought the M64 was a rediculously bad card for 3D ? As in, it's
> six/seven years old - with a Z buffer, and that's all...?
>
> Anyway. Anyone got a Radeon 8500 or the like ? Are they any good under
> linux for Quake/Wolfing ?
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