Re: Can this loop be made faster ?

From: '\\\\o//'annabee ('\\o//'annabee)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:34:57 +0100

På Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:35:56 +0100, skrev wolfgang kern
<nowhere@nevernet.at>:

>
> "The Half" skrev:
>
> | > If just all this new hardware would come with detailed documentation
> | > instead of HLL-created windoze-drivers...
> | Yes....but doesnt Linux have such drivers ? If it does could the info
> not
> | be ported ?
>
> You know my opinion about Linux:
> an "open 'C-source' variant of "WinDuNix" ;)
> with the INT80 API (~200 wasted cycles for every function call).
> [KESYS also got a INT7f API, but only used for calls from RM or PM16]
>
> Last time I checked they also don't had any Nvidea details avialable.

As far as I heard from one Linux entusiast, they had NVIDIA drivers for at
least 2-3 years. He told me they could play a few 3D games that had been
ported over there. Maybe Percival could give some input here, as he seems
to be a Linux enthusiast. 200 wasted cycles per call ? Is that minus the
functions work ? Thats sounds really terrible. That would mean a call to a
CopyRect function in the API, could take longer time for overhead than
Windows Copyrect does in total ? Can this be correct ? Thats sounds
terrible.

> | Ok. If you havent tried it, you _should_ at least take a look at HL2.

> Ok, next time on Google I'll try to "find" (I do hate search machines).
> Sure, the future of games seems to be interactive movies, I don't like
> it.

I try find the link for you.

Here it is. The download link is in the right corner.
< http://www.ati.com/halflife2/index.html >

I think this is a flash link maybe.... :-( I am sorry. The world has gone
amokk.
Try this to avoid the flash page : <
http://www2.ati.com/hl2/demo/steaminstall_hl2demo.exe >

You should use your highspeed connection for this.
You can forget downloading it via modem. Its 400+ megs or something. You
also need a hw able to do pixel shading. I just bought one of the earlier
pixle shader cards, it was "cheap". I can play it --ok-- in 640*480 mode,
on a 1000mhz athlon, using an FX5200 T128 Nvidia card, and 256 megas
memory. But this is really barly able to do it. :-( As long as I dont move
to fast. The game is made so that the graphic settles and becomes smother,
if you dont move to fast around. And for the single player demo, it is
actually playable then. More than enough to get an impression of what they
are capable of.

I allready had steam installed when I run the installer. I dont know if
this is needed. But if it is, here is the link.
http://www.steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.exe (This is a direct
link.)

Later. I got a headache.
> __
> wolfgang
>
> 

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