[ut3] NVidia buying AGEIA

[Andrea Chiumenti]

mah...

you didn't convinced me a lot,
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=16412f8dfd16e494d0b02bd01ed4dfdf&t=61644

that is different from only one programmer involved!

Cheers,
kiuma

On Feb 16, 2008 9:34 AM, Spike <spike at spykes.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:46 -0600
> Eric Jackman <eric at polycypher.com> wrote:
>
> > Looks like they are shooting for Physix Processing starting with
> > existing hardware in the 8 series cards.
> >
> > http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14147
> >
> > Sir Brizz wrote:
>
> You can say goodbye to any possible Linux support right there, period.
> NVIDIA are more interested in the 3D workstation industry with regards
> to the Linux drivers. They're not interested in what the plain user
> wants, like you and I.
>
> Examples:
>
> SLI only happening in Linux because HP demanding it, and even then, its
> completely lackluster in performance compared to Windows.
>
> Non-existent Purevideo support, NVIDIA completely ignores all requests.
>
> They wont fix the very slow 2D drawing lag problem that exists with all
> 8 series cards, despite *hundreds* of requests.
>
> Not re-implementing XvMC support for 8 series cards, and failure to add
> MUCH requested x264 acceleration support. All requests ignored.
>
> Lack of any HDMI-Audio support on HDMI equipped cards, despite requests.
>
> Bottom line:
>
> That said, you expect to see PhysX support on 8 series cards in
> Linux? Yeah right, good luck with that one. You have to be a big OEM
> with the bucks in the 3D workstation industry to convince NVIDIA to add
> new features to their Linux drivers. The features mentioned above
> won't help their bottom line, so they wont bother with them.
>
> We had a much better chance with Ageia and standalone PPU drivers in
> getting Linux support. I'm sure it probably would of surfaced sometime
> after the Linux UT3 Client release, if that part ever happens even.
>
> Plenty more examples can be found at
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
>
> Regards,
>
> Bren
>
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