mah...<br><br>you didn't convinced me a lot, <br><a href="http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=16412f8dfd16e494d0b02bd01ed4dfdf&t=61644">http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=16412f8dfd16e494d0b02bd01ed4dfdf&t=61644</a><br>
<br>that is different from only one programmer involved!<br><br>Cheers,<br>kiuma<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 16, 2008 9:34 AM, Spike <<a href="mailto:spike@spykes.net">spike@spykes.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:46 -0600<br>Eric Jackman <<a href="mailto:eric@polycypher.com">eric@polycypher.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Looks like they are shooting for Physix Processing starting with<br>
> existing hardware in the 8 series cards.<br>><br>> <a href="http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14147" target="_blank">http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14147</a><br>><br>> Sir Brizz wrote:<br><br></div>
You can say goodbye to any possible Linux support right there, period.<br>NVIDIA are more interested in the 3D workstation industry with regards<br>to the Linux drivers. They're not interested in what the plain user<br>
wants, like you and I.<br><br>Examples:<br><br>SLI only happening in Linux because HP demanding it, and even then, its<br>completely lackluster in performance compared to Windows.<br><br>Non-existent Purevideo support, NVIDIA completely ignores all requests.<br>
<br>They wont fix the very slow 2D drawing lag problem that exists with all<br>8 series cards, despite *hundreds* of requests.<br><br>Not re-implementing XvMC support for 8 series cards, and failure to add<br>MUCH requested x264 acceleration support. All requests ignored.<br>
<br>Lack of any HDMI-Audio support on HDMI equipped cards, despite requests.<br><br>Bottom line:<br><br>That said, you expect to see PhysX support on 8 series cards in<br>Linux? Yeah right, good luck with that one. You have to be a big OEM<br>
with the bucks in the 3D workstation industry to convince NVIDIA to add<br>new features to their Linux drivers. The features mentioned above<br>won't help their bottom line, so they wont bother with them.<br><br>We had a much better chance with Ageia and standalone PPU drivers in<br>
getting Linux support. I'm sure it probably would of surfaced sometime<br>after the Linux UT3 Client release, if that part ever happens even.<br><br>Plenty more examples can be found at<br><a href="http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14" target="_blank">http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14</a><br>
<br>Regards,<br><br>Bren<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>---<br>To unsubscribe, send a blank email to <a href="mailto:ut3-unsubscribe@icculus.org">ut3-unsubscribe@icculus.org</a><br>Mailing list archives: <a href="http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?64" target="_blank">http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?64</a><br>
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