Initial Savage 3D Support
August 22nd, 2000 by CrusaderDominik Behr wrote in to the Utah-GLX mailing list last week to announce that he’s addedpreliminary support for the Savage 3D chipsetto the project’s source tree. Dominik also made the following caveats:
It runs QuakeForge 0.1.1 with decent framerateand Quake3Arena in 320×240 window at barely playable framerateon my Cel 300A @450MHz 64MB Slackware 7.0 machine.There is no direct rendering (yet).There are lots of bugs.
Thankts to the Utah-GLX team for their continued efforts to improve Linux 3D support; hopefully it won’tbe too long before the driver is in releasable state :).
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
The S3 Savage 3D, Savage 4 and Savage 2000 are chipset
used on a wide range of cards by long time, with a
great performances for the that price.
Why is so difficult to obtain more info from S3/VIA?
Why S3/VIA does not relaese the specs of their products?
Why the MeTaL libraries are still closed sources?
I’d like to use my Savage 4 card to play Quake 3 and UT,
but I think I’m going to buy a Voodoo 5, when actually
I have to use my old, recycled Voodoo 2 card.