while it might be interesting for roman and kim, it might as well be not; i have removed them from the list of direct addressees.
On 2010-06-15 13:04, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
Of course not. But what about a configuration option that allows you to choose sw rendering? Maybe a message to [gemwin], or some options you could set somewhere at startup?
again: you misunderstand how openGL works. the user is not meant to have control about these kind of things.
Gem is openGL, and it fully adheres to this principle.
e.g. the user of Gem doesn't really know whether hw acceleration will be available.
That's bad indeed. Sometimes it happened to me that on some machine the rendering was slow like hell, so most likely for some reason the hardware was not detected correctly and software rendering was being used, but I had no way to be sure of that.
Couldn't GEM simply print out a message telling whether hardware acceleration is available or not??
simple: use linux, there you get at least a message whether DRI is used (which doesn't necessarily mean that rendering will be lightning fast)
obviously this ("change your OS") is not a good solution for many people.
fmgasdr IOhannes