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 -