I'm only using OpenGL 3.3 core features, VBOs and that whole kit of stuff. There's no problems on any NVidia card I've tested so far, which is about 5 different models of varying age, some laptops some desktops.
SDL1.2 for input, window handling and context creation.
I've tested on two ATI Radeon mobility cards and both failed to run my project properly.
The first one, Radeon HD 5650, starts my project alright and renders most things. I'm using a RUI8 texture and I'm attaching that to a framebuffer for direct rendering to it. This seems to be failing on this ATI card since the feature using it simply fails silently, while all other 'usual' GL rendering works fine. I'm using the RUI8 texture more or less as a bitmask. I am checking for FB completion and there are no other errors from GL.
The second ATI card, 7670M won't even pass the test for GL3.3, which I'm doing with GLEW, even though it's GL4.1 card!
glewInit();
if( !GLEW_VERSION_3_3 )
{
cout << "OpenGL v3.3 required.";
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
Goes without saying that all GL4.1 NVidia cards I've tested passed this.
I've tried searching for documented differences between these two manufacturers, but I've failed to find anything. Is NVidia more lenient so that my code perhaps shouldn't work in its current state according to the GL specs? Or is ATI patchy on less used features such as uint textures, at least on mobility/laptop cards? I do know that ATI is more strict with shader compilation, but my shaders are being compiled successfully on the ATI cards (I'm doing all checks).
Anyone encountered similar or any differences between NVidia and ATI regarding the standard core opengl 3.3?
