Official nVidia ForceWare 52.16 and nothing about GLSL

[Zak McKrakem]

nvidia has officially released their 'long awaited', cheats free 50 series drivers but there is nothing about GLSL in them

[Zengar]

I hoped they would add non-rectangle float textures sopport... what are they waiting for? It could be implemented using rect textures at driver side if they have problems with memory manager. About GLSL - I feel a bit uneasy about the specs, I don't think they are free of bugs till now.

[Korval]

what are they waiting for?

Their hardware.

It could be implemented using rect textures at driver side if they have problems with memory manager.

Not if you want mipmaps.

[Humus]

... or want wrap mode.

Regarding GLSL, it will take some time for it to appear. It's not a quick and easy thing to implement.

[SirKnight]

Long Live Cg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



-SirKnight

[azazello]

I think, NV implement a GLSlang like CG - additional compiler/run-time.

Also, in this driver exist emulation of NV40 (NV_vp3/NV_fp2), but it doesn't work :-(.

[Tom78]

Originally posted by SirKnight:
Long Live Cg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



-SirKnight[/B]

Tell that to someone with a Radeon 8500 .

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[SirKnight]

Hmm, vertex_program3...I wonder what kind of goodies they added in there. And fragment_program2..oooohhhhhhh niiiice. I'm betting fp2 will be like vp2, if not better, but for fragments of course. Too bad I won't get to use these in hardware on my FX. But it's understandable, it's NV40 stuff not NV30 stuff.


-SirKnight

[SirKnight]

Well you could always use D3D with Cg on a 8500.


-SirKnight

[rgpc]

Originally posted by SirKnight:
Well you could always use D3D with Cg on a 8500.


-SirKnight

Of course if you wanted to go to the dark side you could also use HLSL....