[gameprogrammer] Re: OpenGL reality check.

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 20:45 +0000, Brian Barrett wrote:
> > I don't really know. Most of them were just normal consumer grade
> > computers. In the past most of the students were gamers and had nVidia
> > and ATI graphics cards. This time most of the students were not hard
> > core gamers and had off the shelf computers. In other words, they were
> > casual gamers with the kind of computers that the rest of the world
> > have.
> >
> >                 Bob Pendleton
> 
> would they have gotten good performance out of anything they used
> (DirectX or whatever)?

Yeah, people were getting usable performance out of GDI and directX when
they couldn't get OpenGL to do much of anything. Of course, they were
not getting *good* performance. But, it was what you expect from low
end/old video chip sets.

                Bob Pendleton

> 
> never had that problem myself...

Me either. But, I am hardly a good example. I generally build all my own
machines and hand pick each component. I am clearly not a typical
consumer.

                Bob Pendleton

> 
> i still support openGL, next time i buy a graphics card, im going to
> get the best one that has good linux driver support, and that does
> well under windows too
> 
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