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Throwing Strikes
09-09-2007, 02:18 AM
Nvidia has been very quiet for about 2 1/2 month.

Are they gearing up for something big :p or just laying low :o?
d2kx
09-09-2007, 03:31 AM
100.15.01 = The "still not as good as fglrx"-driver
Thetargos
09-09-2007, 01:58 PM
You should have said "still not as good as fglrx(8.41)"-driver ;)
Throwing Strikes
09-10-2007, 10:40 PM
My twin war horses would beg to differ but, lets see 100.15.01 vs FGLRX 8.42 before we start to argue which driver is better. :D
Thetargos
09-10-2007, 11:42 PM
My twin war horses would beg to differ but, lets see 100.15.01 vs FGLRX 8.42 before we start to argue which driver is better. :D

Will we finally have a Clash of the Titans on Linux??? :eek: :drool:


How about some competition here?
d2kx
09-11-2007, 09:32 AM
My twin war horses would beg to differ but, lets see 100.15.01 vs FGLRX 8.42 before we start to argue which driver is better. :D

http://www.d2kx-world.de/bilder/ativs.jpg

vs.

http://www.d2kx-world.de/bilder/nvidiavs.jpg

If you ask me, I prefer the first :D
Huenengrab
09-11-2007, 10:20 AM
Wow, that's the first hot chinese chick I've seen in a long time. ;)

Now all Nvidia needs is a stunning brunette in leather and jeans posing on an old Harley. ;)

And a new driver-version.
Michael
09-11-2007, 10:22 AM
If you ask me, NVIDIA's Nalu is still better than ATI's Ruby. Though at least Ruby is an open-source girl :)
Moustacha
09-11-2007, 10:28 AM
One could even draw lines from ATI's red to red being synonymous with communism which is synonymous with linux :O
The ATI picture before 8.41 would have meant "I look pretty but this bike doesn't have a fuel tank"
d2kx
09-11-2007, 10:51 AM
If you ask me, NVIDIA's Nalu is still better than ATI's Ruby. Though at least Ruby is an open-source girl :)

Shame on you :D

Did no one compare the image quality of these two? What do you think why I have chosen THIS ATI picture? To show you the improved image quality (what else did you think?) over the nVidia quality. And to demonstrate the performance, too, if you look carefully on what the ATI babe ehm the rendered Ruby sits.
Thetargos
09-11-2007, 02:41 PM
If you ask me, NVIDIA's Nalu is still better than ATI's Ruby. Though at least Ruby is an open-source girl :)

Speaking of which, it would be nice if either or both companies released one (or all :D) of their technical demos for Linux too :cool:
d2kx
09-11-2007, 02:47 PM
Speaking of which, it would be nice if either or both companies released one (or all :D) of their technical demos for Linux too :cool:

OMG, one hour ago I exactly thought about the same thing :eek: Many of these techdemos are written in OpenGL, even the newer ones, so it would be possible.
Thetargos
09-11-2007, 03:15 PM
I know at least nVidia uses OpenGL on many of their tech demos (I'm not so sure about AMD-ATI). Most prominently I remember the demos for NV15-20 (the marching toys demo and the Werewolf demo, dunno if the Squid demo was in OpenGL) were in OpenGL. I believe the Nalu and Dawn/Dusk demos were Direct3D, though, showcasing Shader Model 3.0 and 2.0 technology (respectively), but then again, I could be wrong.

Edit

I don't know if the Humus (www.humus.ca) Demos available for Linux could be considered official ATI tech demos for Linux, since he has been working for ATI (or at least I believe so) for some now... Hopefully AMD still employs him.

Edit 2

Seems he left AMD on 03-Sept... To develop games... How interesting.
Thetargos
09-11-2007, 03:40 PM
Hahaha!! Just tried to run the Glow demo from Humus on my nVidia setup and got this:


./Glow-32
[Missing extensions]
The following required OpenGL extensions are supported:

GL_ARB_vertex_program
GL_ARB_fragment_program

Too bad, these required OpenGL extensions aren't supported by the graphic card and driver you're using:

GLX_ATI_render_texture

This application will now exit.

Gave a good laugh! Seems that after all, you can still do some "localized" demos in OpenGL for Linux for a particular hardware platform! Nice!
Throwing Strikes
09-13-2007, 10:10 AM
http://www.d2kx-world.de/bilder/ativs.jpg

vs.

http://www.d2kx-world.de/bilder/nvidiavs.jpg

If you ask me, I prefer the first :D

If I had to pick between those two, I would have to say the first also.

But I gotta say Luna is my pick, the demo Nvidia has got of her to showcase HDR is sweet :cool:

http://www.actual.fr/Image/NVIDIA/Luna%5B1%5D.jpg