Re: [utah-glx-dev] Savage4 ?

[Daniel V. <vo...@lo...>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:48:19PM -0800, Michael Vance wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:37:15PM -0500, Gabucino wrote:
> 
> > I'd just like to know the status of the Savage driver development.
> > The Unreal Tournament Linux README says UT supports S3TC - so I bought a
> 
> Doh. NVIDIA has an S3TC license, which is the primary (only?) testbed
> for S3TC support for our OpenGL renderer with UT.

On Windows the ATI Radeon also supports the S3TC compressed textures and
people succesfully use this card with the Windows version of the
renderer available at http://www.lokigames.com/~vogel/UT/ .

But yes, on Linux only the GeForce series support the compressed
textures. On Windows AFAICT only GeForce and Radeon. 

(all the above refers to OpenGL and the GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
extension)

> I don't think the Savage3D support ever worked itself (thus making the
> prospect of a Savage4 driver doubtful). You're best off returning the
> card, if possible, and getting something else. S3 doesn't even make
> video cards any more (correct?), so future support is probably nil.

Yes, if possible get a GeForce based board if you want to use the S3TC
textures on Linux.



                            Daniel Vogel, Programmer, Loki Software Inc.