From: Brian Furtaw (brian++at++sgi.com)
Date: 08/22/2001 04:20:43
Colin,
Right after I sent that letter off to you I did think of one other item
all my work has been on a GeForce3 not the GeForce2. So maybe that is
the difference here.
Brian
Colin Bannister wrote:
>
> The crashes were consistent, and happened whenever I set the FSAA_MODE
> to 3 or 4. I was using standard perfly on a test model (esprit.flt).
> No problems at all with 0.9-769, even with our most demanding models (so far!)
>
> Colin
>
> > I have used the nvidia 1.0-1251 drivers on both RedHat 6.2 and 7.1
> > without problem due to antialiasing modes. Now most of my work is done
> > on an SGI 330 but I have used other hardware. I have tried out all the
> > __GL_FSAA_MODEs on 1280x1024 and 1024x768 both 24 and 16bit. I usually
> > run my applications in 1280x1024 24bit but will routinely test out other
> > modes to see where the best performance lies. I have had crashing
> > problems but they are intermitant and have usually been coding mistakes.
> > Are you consistantly seeing crashes that are related to setting the
> > FSAA_MODE? Are you running multiprocess? Are you downloading a lot of
> > textures (I have seen some oddities with lots of texture download)?
>
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>
> Dr. Colin Bannister
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> email: Colin.Bannister++at++nottingham.ac.uk
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