I recently changed my OS to Ubuntu Hardy to use the proprietary driver for my graphics card as I was having problems with text3d amongst other things. However, the rendering of text3d still looks bad compared to text2d (please see the image below). I've tried sending FSAA values of 1-16 to gemwin but there's no change - is there anything else I can try? Otherwise I guess I'll just have to stick with text3d...
James Dunn wrote:
I recently changed my OS to Ubuntu Hardy to use the proprietary driver for my graphics card as I was having problems with text3d amongst other things. However, the rendering of text3d still looks bad compared to text2d (please see the image below). I've tried sending FSAA values of 1-16 to gemwin but there's no change - is there anything else I can try? Otherwise I guess I'll just have to stick with text3d...
"fsaa" will (should) only work with nvidia drivers on linux. for ati cards, see the documentation for the drivers how to enable fsaa. for nvidia cards, you should be able to set the fsaa via nvidia-settings.
fgmasrd IOhannes
Quoth IOhannes m zmoelnig, on 26/01/10 13:15:
"fsaa" will (should) only work with nvidia drivers on linux. for ati cards, see the documentation for the drivers how to enable fsaa. for nvidia cards, you should be able to set the fsaa via nvidia-settings.
fgmasrd IOhannes
Thanks. I have an ati card and I ran:
ati-config --fsaa=on
then
ati-config --fs=6, 4, 2, and 0 (one at a time with the values recommended by ati-config)
and finally
ati-config --fsg=on (for fullscreen gamma).
I also went through every FSAA value sent to gemwin between each setting. None of these had any effect on the way text3d displays the text. Is there something else I could do?
James Dunn wrote:
Quoth IOhannes m zmoelnig, on 26/01/10 13:15:
"fsaa" will (should) only work with nvidia drivers on linux. for ati cards, see the documentation for the drivers how to enable fsaa. for nvidia cards, you should be able to set the fsaa via nvidia-settings.
fgmasrd IOhannes
Thanks. I have an ati card and I ran:
ati-config --fsaa=on
then
ati-config --fs=6, 4, 2, and 0 (one at a time with the values recommended by ati-config)
and finally
ati-config --fsg=on (for fullscreen gamma).
i hardly ever use ati, but afaik ati-config will change your xorg.conf, so i think you have to restart your xserver (sorry if this is obvious) after running it.
here's an old thread about this: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33851796
I also went through every FSAA value sent to gemwin between each setting. None of these had any effect on the way text3d displays the text. Is there something else I could do?
you don't need to play with the FSAA in Gem here. this is known to only work with nvidia on linux.
the idea is to enforce FSAA from outside using the driver specific tools.
mfgasdr IOhannes
Quoth IOhannes m zmoelnig, on 26/01/10 14:57:
i hardly ever use ati, but afaik ati-config will change your xorg.conf, so i think you have to restart your xserver (sorry if this is obvious) after running it.
here's an old thread about this: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33851796
I also went through every FSAA value sent to gemwin between each setting. None of these had any effect on the way text3d displays the text. Is there something else I could do?
you don't need to play with the FSAA in Gem here. this is known to only work with nvidia on linux.
the idea is to enforce FSAA from outside using the driver specific tools.
mfgasdr IOhannes
Yes I was logging out to restart the X server in between changing settings. I also checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log and saw some warnings about FSAA could not be enabled so I installed Catalyst 9.3 from ATI and it has a control centre where I can set all the FSAA settings which work perfectly!! Text3d looks cool! Thanks for your help
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James Dunn