Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 02, 2006 03:53 AM
The "open standard instruction set" for graphics is OpenGL (www.opengl.org). Its well established and NVidia certainly provide excellent OpenGL drivers under Linux.
I work fulltime under Linux developing open source real-time graphics software using OpenGL, Standard C++, the platform is very mature for this type of development. See <a href="http:www.openscenegraph.org" title="openscenegraph.org">http:www.openscenegraph.org</a openscenegraph.org>
IMBO, Linux is now much better for realtime 3D graphics than Windows, the file systems and threading support are superior, and the NVidia OpenGL drivers are as good as under Windows.
There really isn't any technical reason holding back game development under Linux. A good chunk of the visual simulation industry now work under Linux, and the move from Windows to Linux is gathering momentum. The games industry is different, lets face gacts its the console that is king in the gaming industry - your have to compete with market on consoles as well as Windows and OSX to attract professional games companies to Linux.
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Re:Better Linux Games
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 02, 2006 03:53 AMI work fulltime under Linux developing open source real-time graphics software using OpenGL, Standard C++, the platform is very mature for this type of development. See <a href="http:www.openscenegraph.org" title="openscenegraph.org">http:www.openscenegraph.org</a openscenegraph.org>
IMBO, Linux is now much better for realtime 3D graphics than Windows, the file systems and threading support are superior, and the NVidia OpenGL drivers are as good as under Windows.
There really isn't any technical reason holding back game development under Linux. A good chunk of the visual simulation industry now work under Linux, and the move from Windows to Linux is gathering momentum. The games industry is different, lets face gacts its the console that is king in the gaming industry - your have to compete with market on consoles as well as Windows and OSX to attract professional games companies to Linux.
Robert.
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