[aztec-users] Re: [aztec2] Windows XP desktop icon flashing /redrawing (Bug: 745930)
- From: Richard <rm.vaneijbergen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: aztec-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 20:16:42 +0000
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 18:53, Gregor Mückl wrote:
>
> Does anyone here have an idea how that might possibly work?
You mean the KTX/ARB buffer region extensions?
It's easy.. there's a demo available somewhere @ delphi3d.net and, of course,
there's the all mighty OpenGL extension registry :)
>
> Well... having to force screen redrawing in a 4000$ app is kind of poor. I
> hope Aztec will make things better :-)
Hm, nice sub title.. 'Aztec: Lets make things better' :P
>
> Wireframe isn't as optimized as the more popular shaded renderung mode on
> most consumer level cards because shaded and textured polys are used in
> compter games. I even heard of cards/drivers which had no hardware
> acceleration for wireframes at all. So this behaviour is perfectly sane,
> although it may be a little unexpected.
True, most consumer cards don't have any acceleration for drawing lines, and
some or most of them (afaik) are even using polygons to draw them instead
(hence the reason it's slower).
- RIchard
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