Radeon 5k series and GL driver status?
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I am wondering what the state of ATI's drivers are for OpenGL 3.2 on their latest driver 9.12? Buggy? All of GL3.2 supported?
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Yes, GL v3.2 is supported, but support for it is very buggy. At least I have no success with geometry shaders (even simplest ones) and transform feedback. That is for both HD5x and HD4x cards.
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that sucks! :( I am in the market to get a new Gfx card and if that is the case I am not jumping off the Nvidia bandwagon.
Well I would guess the problems will be fixed in the next driver releases. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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Hey YannL, are you using a Radeon 5k card? :) I know you have had such great things to say about ATI in the past, LOL, really though, I am just curious if they finally getting their act together...
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Quote:Original post by MARS_999
Hey YannL, are you using a Radeon 5k card? :) I know you have had such great things to say about ATI in the past, LOL, really though, I am just curious if they finally getting their act together...
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Since ATI became AMD, lots of things have changed for the better. Todays OpenGL drivers are not even comparable to the abomination that were the old ATI ones. While I am mostly on NV, the last tests I did on a 4890 were very positive. Although I wasn't using GL3.2 core, but GL2.x + lots of 3.x extensions. The simple fact that AMD has developed 3.2 core drivers (eventhough still buggy) in under 10 years is a sign things have changed ;)
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I am still using GL2.1+ extensions e.g. texture arrays, PBO, FBO and would like to use Geometry Shaders sometime. I see that these are all supported now, but are they supported under a 2.1 RC? and if so do they work without me pulling my hair out! :)
Thanks for any input.
Thanks for any input.
I couldn't get the code here to work on 5850 with catalyst 9.12 though it was working on a nvidia 8600.
The code is here :
http://glbase.codeplex.com/
The code is here :
http://glbase.codeplex.com/
Quote:Original post by MARS_999
I am still using GL2.1+ extensions e.g. texture arrays, PBO, FBO and would like to use Geometry Shaders sometime. I see that these are all supported now, but are they supported under a 2.1 RC?
Yep.
Quote:Original post by MARS_999
and if so do they work without me pulling my hair out! :)
Seem to work fine for all what I tried. I haven't really stress tested GS though. Tex arrays, PBOs and FBOs all work very well. The latter even with multisampled FBOs onto a HDR R11G11B10 target :)
Careful with GLSL though. AMDs GLSL compiler is a lot more picky about syntax and spec compliance than NVs. Some constructs will compile fine on NV even if they're not 100% standard compliant. These will fail on AMD. But as long as you follow the standard, there shouldn't be any problems.
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