Friday, March 10, 2000

Scott Draeker on Slashdot -- 1:37 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Slashdot has posted a Q&A with Loki Software's president Scott Draeker concerning many subjects dealing with gaming under Linux. This quote caught my eye:

There are big differences in the quality of drivers available. The 3dfx and Matrox cards are well supported. ATI support is also progressing well. The NVidia drivers, however, are in really bad shape because the source they released is obfuscated -- to play on an analogy from Bob Young, it's like being allowed to work on your Ford, but being given only metric tools to do it. Without the necessary information, its simply not possible to create decent NVidia drivers, and until the drivers improve we can't officially support those cards. NVidia has promised to release closed source drivers which will improve performance.

OK, NVIDIA! Use some of that money you made this week from your stock going through the roof, get some coders, and get those drivers fixed! I've tried to play games in Linux using the current NVIDIA drivers and I must agree. It's a mess.

News for 03/10/2000

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