Rollback with Croquet -- Harware issue ?

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon Nov 18 16:20:53 UTC 2002


AFAIK Trident Cyberblade does not have accelerated OpenGL drivers, only
DirectX. You can try GLDirect, it allows you to run OpenGL-based
applications using DirectX drivers:

http://www.scitechsoft.com/

-- Bert

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Bergel Alexandre wrote:

> Thanks for you advice, here is the result:
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> ANALYSIS:
> This hardware has NO accelerated OpenGL support whatsoever (bad news). 
> If the hardware is indeed 3D capable, you will need to obtain OpenGL drivers from your vendor.
> This hardware has no sufficient depth buffer support (bad news). 
> A depth buffer of at least 16 bit is required by Tea.
> This hardware has NO stencil buffer support (bad news). 
> Stencil buffer support is required by Tea.
> 
> SUMMARY: This system should be capable of running Tea just fine.
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> 
> Tea is really slow. I have a compaq pressario with a cyberblade3d gfx card.
> I will check if I could find any drivers.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alexandre
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:18:21PM +0100, Andreas.Raab at gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi Alexandre,
> > 
> > First of all:
> > > When I evaluate: B3DSceneMorph new accelerationEnabled
> > 
> > 'accelerationEnabled' is a property which indicates that the morph _should_
> > use HWA not that it does. E.g., if it is not set then you will never get 3D
> > HWA but even if it is set you may not. So this is no indication about the
> > hardware properties.
> > 
> > > I run Croquet on a not-really-new laptop under windows 2000, and I guess
> > > it is because my Hardware isn't supported.
> > 
> > Check out what you get when you do
> > 
> >   TGraphicsTest open
> > 
> > and click on the "run tests" button. In any case, it'd be interesting to
> > find out what graphics hardware is in your laptop. And it might be worthwhile to
> > check with the vendor if there are any updates for the drivers.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >   - Andreas
> > 
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