FreeBSD, Ubuntu Offer Same NVIDIA OpenGL Support As Windows 74
An anonymous reader writes "There's some good news if you use NVIDIA graphics on (Ubuntu) Linux or FreeBSD with their binary graphics driver: the OpenGL performance is comparable to Windows 8. Unfortunately, that's not the same for Intel graphics and AMD doesn't even offer a Catalyst driver for FreeBSD. FreeBSD offers a binary Linux compatibility layer to run games at the same (or better) performance as Linux, but unfortunately it's capped to running Linux x86 binaries and NVIDIA is the only GPU vendor with proper BSD graphics driver support."
AMD Shooting themselves in the foot (Score:5, Funny)
AMD is missing out on that HUGE FreeBSD gaming market.
in 3... 2... 1... (Score:3, Funny)
"...performance is comparable to Windows 8."
Oooh, this is going to get ugly, quick.
Re:AMD Shooting themselves in the foot (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah. Like the Sony PS4.
VGLeaks reports that the operating system used on Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 is called Orbis OS,
http://www.vgleaks.com/some-details-about-playstation-4-os-development/ [vgleaks.com]
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/FreeBSD-Linus-Orbis-OS-PlayStation-OtherOS,23254.html [tomshardware.com]
Re:in 3... 2... 1... (Score:4, Funny)
It's like the finger smudges on the screen are jumping right out at me!
Re:in 3... 2... 1... (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing, you insensitive clods... (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately, that's not the same for Intel graphics and AMD doesn't even offer a Catalyst driver for FreeBSD.
I'm still trying to get the Tseng Labs ET4000 video chip in my IBM PS/2 ValuePoint to display more than 256colors. Apparently the chip itself is capable but there was a hardware bug in IBM's implementation (the chip is soldered to the motherboard, by the way) and it simply won't display 16 or 24bit color depths in Windows 3.1 without artifacting all-to-hell. I've tried calling IBM every year or so (since 1994) to see if they've released a patched BIOS for the problem yet but still no luck (however, now that Lenovo's in charge, things might finally shape up over there; my fingers're crossed...).
Re:Grain of salt (Score:2, Funny)
I like how you insult Windows with a deliberate misspelling even though Linux was the one that performed worse with artifacts and whatnot. Goes to show some people are a little too attached to operating systems such that they don't have any actual problems in life to deal with.