[RndTbl] Linux distro for Pentium III

Trevor Cordes trevor at tecnopolis.ca
Thu Oct 10 02:56:17 CDT 2013


On 2013-10-09 Mark Jenkins wrote:
> Were AGP 2x ati cards and chips in the Pentium III world ever able to
> do OpenGL even on Windows, or were they just Direct X and/or
> programed directly by specific games?

To my recollection, that era was *more likely* to have OpenGL support,
before DirectX became uber-dominant.  I used to remember running stuff
like Unreal and Half-Life in GL mode (on Windows) for better
performance. I could be remembering wrong though...


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