Quote:Now now, what gave you that idea? You should at least check out the Glide sources. If you have something serious to contribute to 3dfx Glide, join glide.sourceforge.net, founded by 3dfx Interactive Inc.
We have checked the glide sources, since we first heard of their availability through internet (2002), and since then we put ourselves many questions regarding the development of newer games using glide, perforamance, and quality issues.
Since 2002, we have done a number of independent tests, and come to the conclusions:
1)Glide is an excellent interface, simple, fast, compatible.
2)In terms of quality, it is still above DirectX standards.
3)32 bit depth color is not so important as how effects are generated, and applied.
4)Glide is still a viable platform, although it needs some enahncements to be able to cope very well with textures, AGP, shared memory...
The independent tests also sent a light through some of the major aspects in which the drivers and the card work together, what is good and not so good. Using all the driver tweaking, we have come to good conclusion on what are the best glide/opengl/direct3d requirements, conjunction, and usage, and we have tracked down problems (including GTA3 issues of "missing textures cars are white").
Having said this, we know very well what our aims are, and we continue to struggle to bring quality to 3dfx or S3 users, and take most of the performance out of a PC.
Probably we wilL still rely on our road and continue our researches far of the others work. Mainly because we seek specific things, and we are very interested in solving a problem entirely, not just "cover" it so that it works somehow...
More, since financial support for our work is minimal, our work is considerably hindered and slowed, and this is happening because of the common perception of people regarding this kind of facts: "Why should I pay to enhance something, when I could buy a new one? Or why should I bother to change it, if it works somehow this way?".
Because of this our work is valuable, but not sustained enough. And for each and every thing there is a strong point on the list: money, finances. Without that, our work will remain apart from the public...