[PD] GEM sw rendering - was Re: overriding objects (was Re: plugin~ external)

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

IOhannes m zmoelnig escribió:

> if Gem was doing like most of you suggest, there would need to have
> separate objects for hardware accelerated rendering and software
> rendering. e.g. [Gem.sw.cube] vs [Gem.hw.cube], [Gem.sw.translate] vs
> [Gem.hw.translate] and so on.
> now this might be interesting in some cases (i remember a feature
> request for sw-rendering in an environment with hw acceleration), but in
> general, i'm sure that i would not want to have to rewrite every single
> patch i developed on my prehistoric netbook to be able to run at the
> final target architecture.

Of course not. But what about a configuration option that allows you to 
choose sw rendering?
Maybe a message to [gemwin], or some options you could set somewhere at 
startup?


> e.g. the user of Gem doesn't really know whether hw acceleration will be
> available.

That's bad indeed. Sometimes it happened to me that on some machine the 
rendering was slow like hell, so most likely for some reason the 
hardware was not detected correctly and software rendering was being 
used, but I had no way to be sure of that.

Couldn't GEM simply print out a message telling whether hardware 
acceleration is available or not??



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