oeboeroe wrote:All I can say is, you could appeal to your vendor to supply a datasheet for a developer to use when implementing a driver. Since both ATI and NVIDIA currently have problems facing other peoples IP regarding their GPU's drivers. This has been the "battle" between the giants regarding the PC games market, FUD plus specific game optimization regardless of the underlying libraries, it beeing opengl or directx.
There is some hope concerning ATI, since AMD has been trying to open up their driver for foss.
Then again I won't be troubled if I could CUDA my way on the RGX, don't need no 3d..
smashing the vizor for fun and profit is cool, just hope there's some common sense before someplace starts shipping chips again and you'd be fighting a challenger on grand turismo you'll never beat. E.g. I don't want to give up my gameos just so I can run eye candy on a workstation.
If you want compiz like ability try looking/supporting the effort to get the CELL to act as a GPU, specs are available a FOSS driver is available. Someone just needs some time to get it up and running again..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D
http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7053#p35823
If there is enough time.. one could even opt to GSOC it.. I don't know just winging it here.
There are even tutorials (FOSS) out there how one creates a raytracer on the CELL..
DOOM raytraced anyone?
Just my 2 euro cents
Personally i dont believe that its even as bad as 7800 that card could barelly run ut2k4 with anti aliasing at playable fps... as much powerfull as the cell could actually be, it would be impossible for it to render games like killzone2 with a trash gfx card like that, i can go as high as saying it couldnt even render wipeout hd at 1080p even if sometimes it drops at 720p to keep it up at 60fps.
I will only believe in those specs when nvidia states them themselves, untill then dont care much about that xboxvsps fanboy made up war...