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Flesh Eater
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Posted - 2009.02.03 06:25:00 -
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I don't get why people are saying that if Eve used OpenGL, it wouldn't look as nice...
Running through Wine (which turns the DirectX into OpenGL calls), I can't tell the difference from running natively under windows. Considering the game is written in Python, it seems bizarre that they haven't written it to be cross-platform.
Since Microsoft have effectively discontinued DirectX on Windows XP, rather than split into seperate DirectX 9 and 10+ graphics engines, CCP should switch to OpenGL and future proof the game.
BTW Blizzard always allows OpenGL rendering in their games (Warcraft3, WoW) - I guess needed as they support Mac natively.
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Flesh Eater
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Posted - 2009.02.03 22:44:00 -
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Edited by: Flesh Eater on 03/02/2009 22:46:15
Edited by: Flesh Eater on 03/02/2009 22:45:45
 Originally by: Par'Gellen
Originally by: Glengrant
But by v 6 IE was terrible, increasingly outdated and an annoyance for web developers. It's stranglehold on the browser market was harming the industry.
As a web developer myself (ASP/VB.NET) I'm not sure that is an accurate statement. We ran Firefox and IE6 together in our production environment and I had to fight with Firefox a lot more than IE6. In fact I never remember having any trouble with IE6 even in instances where Firefox wouldn't display the page correctly at all. This was a couple of years ago though so maybe the guys at Firefox have gotten things straight by now. I dunno. I don't develop with it in mind or follow their progress anymore.
Wow...you develop using microsoft's tools and libraries and you find that your web pages didn't work that well with Firefox? Gee...I wonder why not...
Firefox has always been more standards compliant than IE, to this day there are parts of HTML that the W3C have specified that IE doesn't support. Things like SVG are not supported by IE, so rendered useless...
BTW do you think anyone will take you seriously when you "I don't develop with it (firefox) in mind"? I went to ING Insurance here in Australia to buy insurance - the site only worked in IE - guess what - I bought my insurance elsewhere. Idiots like you directly lost them money.
Also, I would like to hear both these things in a post "I have tried a current release of Linux, like Ubuntu 8.xx+" and "Linux is not mainstream". Again guess what - noone would post that unless they are lying or are a moron. My parents don't really know Windows XP that well, I changed it to Ubuntu 8.10 and they find it easier to use. |
Flesh Eater
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Posted - 2009.02.04 12:35:00 -
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The steps to get Eve working on Ubuntu 8.xx is something like this:
1. sudo apt-get install mscorefonts
2. copy Arial fonts to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts
3. wine eve.exe
Wow...really hard :/
I get something like 10-20 less fps in Linux (ie 60-70 instead of 80 boohoo)
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Flesh Eater
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Posted - 2009.02.04 12:45:00 -
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Originally by: Dasalt Istgut
Because the linux userbase is so small its not worth spending money to improve it.
Thing is, this is just the type of game that would attract the type of people who use Linux.
I've worked on an international (kiosk type) graphics display application which ran in Linux and Windows. We just had a class called "Platform" and two subclasses, "linux" and "windows". This, and careful choice of libraries meant it was trivial to provide cross-platform support, and that was written in C++ - Python it would be even easier.
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Flesh Eater
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Posted - 2009.02.04 13:36:00 -
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Originally by: Angry Cheeto
Originally by: Flesh Eater
...you develop using microsoft's tools and libraries...
you say that like it's a bad thing. I LOL'd. you can't seriously be saying that visual studio is bad. If so then wow..... just wow. Plese come back when you are in touch with reality haha! oh and welcome to Earth!
Huh?
I use them at work too quite a bit, and I like Visual Studio. WTF you are talking about?
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