Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> writes:
lee writes:
> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> writes:
>
> > Bruno Wolff III writes:
> >
> >> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 00:30:11 +0800,
> >> "Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)"
<singapore.mr.teo.en.ming(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am wondering if the nouveau driver supports 3D video hardware
> >>> acceleration or only 2D video acceleration.
> >>
> >> It supports 3D acceleration.
> >
> > Not on all Nvidia chipsets.
> >
> >
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
>
> I tried it and got only about 1/7 of the FPS I get with the drivers from
> NVIDIA, so it's not really an option (unless you have a really fast card
> and want to waste it maybe).
Well, it's not really an option if your needs are, primarily, to play
shoot-
em-ups. Then, your only realistics options are either MS-Windows, or
dealing with Nvidia's proprietary driver, and regular kernel breakages
that result from using it.
You don't have to play shooting games; it's any game that has nice
graphics which you won't be able to play. I've been using NVIDIA
drivers for more than a decade now and they have never broken the
kernel. Their cards and drivers just work fine, and that's why I keep
buying NVIDIA cards.
But, for most folks who only need accelerated video to pacify Gnome
3,
and to play Youboob videos, Nouveau should work just fine. I have a
geforce gtx 285 card, which is NV4x chipset I think, and nouveau works
fine for me.
The OP was asking about 2/3d acceleration. Where is the 3d acceleration
with the nouveau driver when the 3d stuff is so awfully slow? Only 1/7
the performance is quite a large factor.
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