The good (great) news just keep on rolling (unfortunately not every day as we'd all like, but that's impossible of course), we now have hardware OpenGL running on Haku! You need a compatible gfx card naturally and also Rudolf's 2D/3D driver. I spotted this over at the IT-Bug and after contacting Andrea, he wrote back saying that after adding the driver to his Haiku installation, the GLTeapot started running like crazy as you can see from the screenshot. Easy as that.

And the icing on the cake... Quake 3 also runs on Haiku in OGL! As you can see from the screenshots here and here over at [Beta]'s Flickr page. It's frag time baby!

Comments

So what video card should I grab Written by Serpentor on 2006-05-15 21:08:50 This question is probably more for Rudolph than anyone else but maybe someone else could help answer it as well. What is the best card I can get that will allow me to have 3D in Haiku at this time? Thanks!

What video... Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2006-05-15 22:27:06 You may find the answer here:    http://www.bebits.com/app/4129

Re video Written by ModeenF on 2006-05-16 00:44:39 The fastest today on BeOS/Haiku/Zeta are Geforce2TI as you can se here http://web.inter.nl.net/users/be-hold/BeOS/NVdriver/index.html    If you look at this  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_NVIDIA_Graphics_Processing_Units  to me GeForce4 MX 460 would be the fastest one but are wery hard to get. Geforce4 MX 440 8X are not that hard to get.    as Geforce3 has a NV20 chip it will not work on BeOS    //Fredrik

THE fastest card is... Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2006-05-19 12:41:51 If you're looking to get the fastest ultimate most uber grafik for BeOS/PurpleLahmaOS/WhateverYouWant2NameItNow it's a bit more complicated than most realize but read on     There actually are much faster clocked (higher Mhz) GeForce cards out there, the only real problem is grabbing them before they are burned-out! Most people overclock GF4MX cards, because good cores can OC like mad for that model.    _The_Fastest_ I've seen is a model named "Bloody Monster" not joking! It was a GeForce 4 MX 440, but it was clocked *higher* than a 460. These board manufacturers have (and still do) produce cards, sometimes even the same model, all clocked at diff rates (usually el cheapo manufacturers tho). Sort of luck-of-the-draw or playing the lottery     Anyhow if you can find one they [cores] OC like you woldn't believe, and if you're lucky it's already above spec. The DDR interface is the limiting factor, so just don't bother to OC the MEM clock -> easy way to burn it out fast (which is where most of those went :b)! You can also just dump the card BIOS, edit the Core clock and reflash (with known working rate [duh]) for instant gratification o_O.    The reason people don't say the GF 2 Ultra is the fastest [compared to GF 2 Ti], is because of the way the driver deals with memory today. This may or may not change in future, and if it does then [obvsiously] that changes things. In reality the Ultra is actually a tad faster tho :P    FYI the "Bloody Monster" I'm talking about had just totally bizarre default clocks: Core-327 ,, Mem-530((265)).    Finding one: your best bet is used dealer or an out-of-business shop with old stock.    Good Luck

also Written by _e on 2006-05-19 12:50:20 unless Rudolf figures out how to unlock all those pipes (GF 2 = 4 pipes ,, GF 4MX = 2 pipes), then FPS would double on GF 2!  o_O

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