Mesa 3D retro survey

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Mesa 3D retro survey

Surveying retro graphics cards...

Device		24.1.3	21.3.9 amber	20.3.5 1
R600 Radeon HD2600 XT	glxgears	✅	✅	✅
- OpenGL 3.3, GLES 3.0	glquake2	✅	✅	✅
- RV630 3	lzdoom	✅	✅	✅
	mpv	❎ software 4	❎ software	❎ gpu segfault
	glkss5	✅	✅	✅
R300 Radeon X1300 PRO	glxgears	✅	✅	✅
R300 Radeon 9600	glquake	✅ faster	✅	✅
- OpenGL 2.1, GLES 2.0	lzdoom	✅	✅	✅
- RV515, RV350	mpv	✅	✅	❎ gpu segfault
	glkss	✅	✅	✅
R200 Radeon 8500 LE	glxgears	⭕ not supported	❎ buggy hw tcl 6	✅
- OpenGL 1.3	glquake		✅	✅
	lzdoom		❎ software	❎ software
	mpv		❎ -vo=xv,drm	❎ -vo=xv,drm
R100 Radeon VE / 7000 AGP	glxgears	⭕ not supported	✅	✅
- OpenGL 1.3	glquake		✅	✅
- RV100 7	lzdoom		❎ software	❎ software
	mpv		❎ xv too slow	❎ xv too slow
	glkss		❎ some more fail	❎ some fail
R100 Radeon VE / 7000 PCI	glxgears	⭕ not supported	✅	✅
- OpenGL 1.3	glquake		✅	✅
- RV100 8	lzdoom		❎ software	❎ software
	mpv		❎ -vo=xv,drm; slow	❎ -vo=xv,drm; slow
	glkss		✅	✅
G73B GeForce 7300 GT	glxgears	✅	✅	✅
- OpenGL 2.1, GLES 2.0 9	glquake	✅	✅	✅
- NV4B	lzdoom	✅	✅	✅
	mpv	❎ no vdpau, gpu segfault	❎ no vdpau	❎ no vdpau
	glkss	✅	✅	✅
NV34 GeForce FX 5200	glxgears	✅	❌ segfault	✅
- OpenGL 1.5 (<2.0)	glquake	✅ faster	✅	✅
	lzdoom	❌ segfault 10	❎ software	❎ software
	mpv	❎ vdpau lockup 11	❎ -vo=xv,drm	❎ -vo=xv,drm
	glkss	✅	❎ some fail	✅ few fail?
NV18 GeForce 4 MX	glxgears	⭕ not supported	✅	✅
- OpenGL 1.2	glquake		✅ nomtex but faster	❌ nomtex & fallbacks
- nouveau.ko errors, a lot	lzdoom		❌ segfault	❎ software
	mpv
NV5 Riva TNT2 Vanta	glxgears	⭕ not supported	✅	✅
- OpenGL 1.2	glquake		❌ segfault	❌ segfault
	lzdoom
	mpv
Matrox G450 PCI	glxgears
ATI Rage 128 VR	glxgears
ATI Rage LT PRO	glxgears
NV3 Riva 128ZX	glxgears
S3 Trio 3D PCI 86C365	glxgears
S3 Trio 64V+ PCI 86C765	glxgears

• ✅ fine accelerated rendering
• ❎ works but see comment
• 🖥️ all cards AGP unless marked PCI.
• 🐧 Linux kernel 6.9.12, xorg-server 1.20.14, xf86-video-ati 22.0.0, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17; Athlon XP 3200+ on VIA chipset.
• LZDoom verifies general health and speed. GL renderer requires OpenGL 2.1. May use OpenGL 3.0 to draw software¹² renderer to screen via texture.

Footnotes

1. meson setup -Dplatforms=x11 -Dvulkan-drivers= -Ddri-drivers=r100,r200,nouveau -Dgallium-drivers=r300,r600,nouveau -Ddri3=true -Dllvm=false -Dlmsensors=false -Dbuildtype=release ↩

2. TyrQuake ↩

3. First and the only ATI here with hardware video decoding asic Avivo / UVD for H.264, VC-1, WMV9, and MPEG-2. ↩

4. Accelerated decoding stuck, could be old-hardware problem. ↩

5. TDE OpenGL screensavers (kss). ↩

6. export tcl_mode=0 to fix. upstream issue ↩

7. No hardware TCL thus no glxgears artifacts by default. ↩

8. twin compositor must be disabled for some speed. Could be low/bios DRAM clock, or PCI? ↩

9. PureVideo HD capable to support decoding of H.264 and VC-1. ↩

10. Segfault in nouveau Gallium driver on canvas blit. ↩

11. Kernel nouveau errors. ↩

12. Software renderer SIGILL on item pickup / palette change in LZDoom's DoBlending_MMX(), perhaps wrong alignment (no SSE2). ↩

You might first look for mesa for old nvidia cards and then check if the old radeon card works.
Debian oldstable can be used to make things easier