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On Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008, Platoali wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Hemmann, Volker Armin |
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> <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > if you want to make a political statement: buy ATI |
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> > |
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> > if you want to use the card with almost no problems and good performance: |
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> > buy nvidia. |
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> > |
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> > Yes, ATI has released docu. Yes, everybody is working on the drivers. But |
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> > the open ones only do 2d so far and the closed ones are horrible. |
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> Does this mean that AMD have not released 3d parts of the drivers? Do |
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> they plan to release the 3d parts? |
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they haven't released a 'driver'. So they can't release '3d parts' of it. |
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They released all the necessary documentation and they are working with Novell |
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to create open drivers (there are two projects to create open ati drivers - |
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to increase the mess). |
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The closed source frglx drivers are still closed source. They are still the |
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only option to get working 3d and they still suck ass. |
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