From: Laurent Lardinois (llardin++at++dsimprove.be)
Date: 04/01/2001 07:50:18
I don't recommend SUBLOAD on OpenGL systems
I've had many stability problems with subloads on IR / IR2 gfx cards
(specially when they were multipipes systems -> pipe crash).
For me the best and also linux portable way, is to
set your new texture, apply() and idle() the old ones ....
when you pre-load all your texture sequence you can also
load, set and idle to save some tex-memory and avoid trashing
your application when it starts.
and every strategies to idle unused textures are welcome.
This way i had a better behaviour with Onyx/Onyx2 systems
and this worked also on linux (i even used this system to fetch
512x512 and 1024x1024 textures with blending from disk with an
async process - it worked on Onyx and on linux) .
subloads were only usefull and stable on old IRIS gfx cards like the Reality Engine 1 and 2
(Crimsons and Onyx 1).
I hope it helps
Laurent Lardinois
IT Consultant - DS Improve
http://www.dsimprove.com
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