Linux has driven me to buy Windows Vista

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Jan 5 17:35:39 UTC 2009


Tyler Aviss wrote:
> Actually I had an overall question/theory about this. Can anyone
> confirm or correct me on this...
> 
> 
> I believe that one of the issues with Cedega VS windows is that NVidia
> cards have better OpenGL support, and Cedega translates the applicable
> DirectX calls to the appropriate OpenGL ones (which in the case of ATI
> might not work as well if the GL support is lacking)? Since ATI has
> been bought out by AMD their drivers have (IMHO) improved greatly
> though, and according to slashdot they've open-sourced their drivers
> as well, so hopefully things will be even better in the future
> 
> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/30/0337204
> 
> 
> - TJA

That would explain why nVidia cards are supported and ATI have issues in 
the EvE client. Fingers-crossed for better future support!

Madi
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