I’ve just installed the 27.10 drivers on a GeForce 256 DDR. I wanted specifically to look at this extension. Is it not supported on older geForce cards?
Incidentally, has anyone else had problems installing these drivers? I know they’re not official, so it’s no big deal - but when I rebooted after the update the screen was ‘stuck’ on the W2K white loading screen, although the system worked fine! I could still run apps like Windows Explorer, and close the system down. It was almost as if the front and back buffers wouldn’t swap!
I think that new extension is for the geforce 3 only. I tried to use it on my geforce 256 w/ the 27.10 drivers and it wouldnt work. I also had problems w/ the drivers (but different than yours) but thats why they are beta and for testing only.
Is GL_HP_occlusion_test fast enought on GeForce3 ? Is it worth using it ?
I tried the Delphi Demo for occlusion, and
100-110 fps for a teapot and a ball doesn’t look really fast…
Originally posted by opla: Is GL_HP_occlusion_test fast enought on GeForce3 ? Is it worth using it ?
I tried the Delphi Demo for occlusion, and
100-110 fps for a teapot and a ball doesn’t look really fast…
… but what you overlooked is that the ball has 16000 triangles
I get about 110 fps when the ball is visible, and 155 when it’s not. The occlusion test itself is by no means free, but I found that if you don’t do it on objects with very small triangle counts (less than a few hundred), it’s always a win.