[luau] WineX rocks

[MonMotha]

They may be fast, but I don't find them to be the "absolute highest 
quality" drivers for linux I've ever seen.  They've crashed X more than 
once...heck they've crashed my KERNEL at least once (remember the 
screwey HUGE kernel driver you have to load?...)  Quite frankly, I think 
the nVidia drivers are the worst of the evils in terms of video drivers 
for linux.  They ALL suck (at least all the vendor supplied onces, which 
are the only ones that can do anything thanks to various companies 
moaning and groaning about their precious IP.  yeah, like somsone's 
gunna clone your card using your linux driver, I don't think any major 
company with enough resources to do that would be willing to take that 
risk).

The only drivers I've seen that I was actually impressed with were the 
3dfx ones: fast as hell for the hardware.  The only problem is that the 
hardware sucked, and then they were bought by the evil nVidia (who 
INSTANTLY took down linux.3dfx.com I might add).  Basically you could 
say nVidia has truely pissed me off, but unfortunately, they are 
basically the only maker of decent (hardware wise) consumer-level 3d 
accellerators.

Anyway, I'm done ranting now.

--MonMotha

Warren Togami wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 23:47, Jeff Mings wrote:
> 
>>    I've been playing Unreal Tournament on my Linux box for quite some 
>>time now without WineX - I am fairly confident that the native Linux 
>>build would be noticeably faster than running the Windoze version under 
>>WineX.  The ability to turn off any process I don't _absolutely_ need 
>>and use a bare-bones WM like TWM gives my Linux box a speed edge over 
>>Win98 when running Unreal Tournament.  I'll drop you an email when I'm 
>>planning my next LAN party  ;)
>>
>>-Jeff
>>
>>
> 
> Do you have an NVidia video card?
> 
> The higher 3D speed in Linux is only due to the high quality NVidia
> drivers.  They are from the same code base as the Windows drivers, with
> a few Windows specific features removed because they are not needed. It
> is mainly due to these missing pieces they actually run faster than the
> Windows versions.  The NVidia drivers is the absolute highest quality
> OpenGL implementation on Linux.
> 
> While the Linux platform itself would add some to game and graphics
> performance, the open source DRI drivers for other video cards are
> nowhere near the quality and optimizations of the closed source NVidia
> drivers. For this reason I don't think it is possible to have a
> non-NVidia card run faster in Linux than Windows at the moment.
> 
> 
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