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Where are the Good Open Source Games?
mobrien_12:
I'm also not happy about the fact that Nvidia won't release their specs. ATI does, but only for a limited number of the weaker radeons (I've tried the open source drivers on a Notebook's ATI Radeon... not perfect but OK).
I'm not sure why they won't release their specs. It really won't give away a competitative advantage IMHO (then again, I don't engineer GPUs). I've heard that one of the biggest reasons is the messed up patent system of the US. GPU manufacturers don't want to release their specs because then some idiot will look through them and say "oh you are infringing on my patent, give me lots of money that I didn't earn."
worker201:
Another issue is that those GPUs are in super-secret machines, and knowing about them could give away their secrets. For example, the original X-box had its hidden system code sitting inside the GPU, which was a modified GeForce. Who knows what other ridiculous crap hides in there?
piratePenguin:
Holy sweet mother of fuck, the Open-Graphics project is actually coming along, so in a few months I could be using a card with performance comparable to that of the 9600 (just what I want), while only supporting an actually sane manufacturer (and it should be a nice card (and some nice code) to play about with, too). Check out the FAQ and the feature list if you're interested.
In other news, ATi have stated they will not release any information about their hardware to developers of free drivers in the foreseeable future. But of course, nobody cares (is there any wonder they're doing this?).
Aloone_Jonez:
http://www.liberatedgames.com/
Orethrius:
Old News :p
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