Am 28.09.2004 um 23:18 schrieb Boris Gaertner:
Attempting to toggle hardware acceleration with the menu checkbox was ineffectual.
I think that "menu checkbox" means the item on the top left of the B3DSceneExplorerMorph. That checkbox is labelled "Enable hardware acceleration". Right? On Squeak for Windows, we have a menu item (in the window menu) "VM preferences" and a submenu "Display and Sound" with three items. It is important to check "Use OpenGL (instead of D3D)" Hardware acceleration needs OpenGL; it will not work when you use D3D.
Really? Balloon3D is supposed to work with either D3D or OpenGL on Windows. If it does not you should file that as a bug. Only Croquet requires OpenGL.
When you try Hardware acceleration with the rotating cube, the effect is not very impressive (IMHO). For more complicated scenes, I found hardware acceleration more impressive. When you use hardware acceleration on a Windows PC, the colors of the scene change, this is a well-known bug, but also an indication that hw acceleration works.
The bug was not particular to Windows PCs, and it should be gone in 3.7 VMs.
- Bert -