Renderers

[monkeycracks]

Which Renderer is better in your opinion?

Direct X 9.0
Direct X 8.1
OpenGL 1.5
Software
Apfelbaum
NullDevice

[Eternl Knight]

I would have to say NullDevice. I mean, none of the others have near the speed as that renderer

On a more serious note, I prefer the Apfelbaum & OpenGL renderers. I'm working on a cross-platform set of tools and game engine. DirectX may get access to "bleeding edge" features quicker, but you sure as hell "bleed" when testing them across different cards

I stick with tried and true techniques that are supported on 90% of cards my users have. As such, when combined with my cross-platform requirements - DirectX is not really in the running

[stodge]

I was going to say the null renderer as you won't have any driver problems or graphics glitches.

I prefer the OpenGL renderer simply for its cross platform support. But it shouldn't really matter which is best, as all are available.

[monkeycracks]

lol about the NullRenderer comments, I didn't mean to actually type that up there. Had just woken up.

OpenGL is what I used, but wanted to know if it was just my lame vid card that ran DirectX slow or what.

I'll stick with GL though

[RapchikProgrammer]

Firstly ban the bloody spammer, and secondly i like to work with dx9 firstly coz ma radeon 9250 works a lot better with dx than ogl and scnldy coz only dx8 and dx9 shaders are sprtd and opngl fragments are not! If you have an nvidia card or a new radeon card go with opengl and if u hav a lil old radeon card go wid dx!

[EmmanuelD]

I'm not sure there's a "best renderer" in irrlicht. Sure, there is a worst one (I find the software renderer awful, and its display is catastrophic - mostly because of the clipping issue but there are a lot of area when it don't work well either). The apfelbaum renderer is quite cool, despite some (very) small problems. I don't see the point of maintaining both a DX8 renderer and a DX9 renderer - DX9 can work with DX8-class hardware, and I'm not sure that DX7-class hardware is to be supported (and such support is the whole point of the DX8 driver if I understand everything correctly)). The OpenGL driver is also quite cool - and faster on my older nvidia hardware.

Firstly ban the bloody spammer, and secondly i like to work with dx9 firstly coz ma radeon 9250 works a lot better with dx than ogl and scnldy coz only dx8 and dx9 shaders are sprtd and opngl fragments are not! If you have an nvidia card or a new radeon card go with opengl and if u hav a lil old radeon card go wid dx!

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[area51]

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[andrei25ni]

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And on-topic, I prefer OGL.

[Anteater]

I leik DritceX 90.c, bceuase i'ts fstaer on my ssyetm. Of cruose, my ssytem is smoewaht old. My vdeio crad is a N*Vidia GFeroce XF 5200. My prceossor is a 2.08 GHz Althon.

[Eternl Knight]

Oh dear god! It was bad enough with the "leet speek" now we have to deliberately go stuffing the words up.

Sorry, but some of us get a head ache (literally) from it.

--EK

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[jam]

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