Hi everyone,
I'm developing a small demo for behaviour trees and I'm having some issues when running it on AMD hardware.
I've tested my code with four configurations:

1. MacBook Pro (NVidia GT650M) - fine
2. Desktop with CentOS 6.5 (Nvidia Quadro FX) - fine
3. Desktop with Windows 7 64 bit (AMD HD7950 with Catalyst 14.4) - slow
4. Desktop with Fedora 19 (AMD HD7950 with catalyst 14.4) - slow

3 and 4 are actually the same machine. The code is not highly optimized but it's not doing anything too complex
either: I have a grid (which I render using GL_POINTS), a line that represents the path found by A* and a moving
agent. The grid has about 10k elements, if I remove that the demo runs better, but still not perfectly.

I guess it's a driver issue, as on 3 and 4 it seems it's running with software rendering; I profiled the code on Windows
with CodeXL and a frame take ~400ms and seems to be using mostly the CPU rather than the GPU.

As final information, I'm using GLEW and GLFW for cross-platform development. The full code is available here:
https://bitbucket.org/theWatchmen/behaviour-trees

Thanks in advance for the help and let me know if you need any further information!

Marco

I'm currently using 7 as point size. The idea is to have points render at 1 pixel less than the

grid cell (currently 8) to render a proper grid.

I'm currently using 7 as point size. The idea is to have points render at 1 pixel less than the

grid cell (currently 8) to render a proper grid.

OK; why I'm saying this is that there are certain things in OpenGL (OS is totally irrelevant here) where a GL_VERSION mandates support for a feature, but the hardware may not actually be able to support it. In order to claim compatibility with that GL_VERSION, the driver must emulate it in software.

I'm suspecting that you're hitting one of those cretain things here, so the first thing I suggest is that you drop your point size to 1 and re-test.

Thanks, I will try this tonight and let you know how it goes!!

Apologies for the late reply, I went on holiday and didn't get a chance to test it

until now. If I change the point size to 1 it works normally, so it seems that for

this card GL_POINTS are implemented in software.

I will need to move to normal triangles to make sure it works everywhere without

issues.

Thanks a lot for your help!