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Re: What's the best 3D graphics card for OS/2?

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From: dabraun
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:00
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>dabraun@ibm.net wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> You've been acting like it was opengl all along - EVERY decent
>> video card offers accelerated drivers for OS/2.  The point is
>> though that NONE of them offer OpenGL acceleration - and none
>> of them even can offer it because IBM has not made the info
>> available to write such drivers...
>> 
>> Not every video card supports acclerated scaling for DIVE, and
>> yes, the elsa card is one of the few that does ... unfortunately
>> that ( "endive" ) never seems to work properly on any of the
>> cards that support it.
>> 
>> D.A.Braun
>
>Again? Your expert oppinion of course.
>
>Robert Dohrenburg
>

I'd like you to find _ONE_ person who didn't have to turn off
EnDIVE to play TOB.  And it's NOT a problem with TOB - two
different incarnations of my DIVE code do not work on computers
with EnDIVE enabled.  It's pretty likely that IBM's DIVE demo
code doesn't work - EnDIVE is ... I just don't get it but it's
never worked as far as I've seen - if someone's actually seen
it work - well?

Someone who recently tried a build of Seeds on an EnDIVE
capable card didn't say there were any color problems or other
things that people have had with TOB - but he got a framerate
of 9-10 fps with EnDIVE enabled .... and a framerate of 25-30
fps with it disabled - if that's you're definition of working ...

D.A.Braun
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David A. Braun                   -            dabraun@ibm.net
Meridian Software
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From: dabraun@ibm.net
Subject: Re: What's the best 3D graphics card for OS/2?
Date: 1997/02/14
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