When are we getting REAL OpenGL drivers for G400?

[Jorden]

Well, if you read the headline for the topic "When are we getting REAL drivers for the G400" ... hmm ... what card can this guy got ...

A Max?

[DosFreak]

"Wait for the G450, it is geared towards the professional/business 3D applications"

Huh? The G450 is basically a G400 with .18 and DDR.

[DosFreak]

"Wait for the G450, it is geared towards the professional/business 3D applications"

Huh? The G450 is basically a G400 with .18 and DDR.

[Humus]

A Max?

No.
The drivers are the same ... so that not important.

Huh? The G450 is basically a G400 with .18 and DDR.

True! And that it's "geared towards the professional/business 3D applications" does in no way garantuee that it will have good OpenGL drivers.

[C=64]

Just to help demonstrate Humus's problem further for the OpenGL un-initiated, here are some links to some real useful things that can be done with a functioning stencil buffer.

Creating Reflections and Shadows using Stencil Buffers
Advanced Graphics Programming Techniques Using OpenGL

Wait for the G450, it is geared towards the professional/business 3D applications.

Umm... that just sounds akin to having told the long suffering G200 owners to wait for the G400. Buying a company's forthcoming product is a *real* poor solution to correcting a problem.

Plus, we're left to consider:
1) I'll have blown however much I've already spent on the card that I'm expected to replace.
2) If the company couldn't do it right this time, is it safe to assume they'll do it right the next?

Heck, if replacing the graphic card is the only reasonable answer, why even wait for the forth coming card that may correct the issue when I can jump ship and pick up a functional card right now?

But all this is pre-supposing that this is a hardware limitation, which we know it is not. It is a software limitation, completely the fault of the driver. And so we stand, praying for Matrox's software to fulfill the promise of the beautiful hardware we have just lying there before us.

Maybe if we ask *real* nice, Matrox will hand over the development to the GLX folks. They seem to be doing a pretty nice job.


C=64

Strike 1: I'm running a dual processor computer
Strike 2: I do more in OpenGL then play quake
Strike 3: I own a G400 <bold>MAX</bold>

Gee, I home this is bowling...

[This message has been edited by C=64 (edited 04 June 2000).]