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by Derek Wilson on March 9, 2004 3:44 AM EST- Posted in
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Jedi Knights: Jedi Academy Performance
The status of the current OpenGL driver is less than optimal, and we did note some rendering issues along with the very slow speed. To reiterate what we've said before, S3 hasn't yet gotten rolling on OpenGL optimizations and has said that they expect performance to be much higher very shortly. They indicate that they have internal builds of the driver that run OpenGL code better than this, and we will have to wait until we get closer to release before we see just how much improvement we can expect.
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Cybercat - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - link
Time is an issue. Even if they are able to fix all the IQ issues and OGL performance problems, if they release it too late, their performance will be below what ATI and NVIDIA will be offering, and they'll fizzle out. If they can get it out before the big boys bring out their new stuff, and they price it cheap enough, they'll have a product that can potentially take a bit of the FX5200/R9200 portion of the market, which would be good because those cards don't perform well for their price IMO. It will be nice to root for someone other than ATI and NVIDIA for a change.