Rendering drivers(solved)

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:40 pm

Hi I was wondering wich renderer out of the Irrlicht options is the fastest.
Is it software? or openGL?.
Thanks

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Mirror · Post by **Mirror** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:01 pm

software rendering is always slower than hardware renderers ( d3d9 opengl ). there have been thousands of forum flame wars in various forums about which is better ( direct3d or opengl ). Personally until now i prefer d3d9 as for my nvidia 6600 it has a slight performance advantage towards opengl.

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:00 pm

3DModelerMan wrote:Hi I was wondering wich renderer out of the Irrlicht options is the fastest.
Is it software? or openGL?.

Are you taking the piss?

If software rendering were faster, why would anyone buy a 3D card?

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:34 am

The ray tracing driver is the fastest. XD

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:07 pm

I was using the software renderer because openGL images look pixelated,
and It's not a power of two problem I even tried setting a texture creation flag to optimized for quality before loading the texture.
So right now I'm stuck with software.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:19 pm

you cant do much thing using software renderer.

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:28 pm

3DModelerMan wrote:I was using the software renderer because openGL images look pixelated,
and It's not a power of two problem I even tried setting a texture creation flag to optimized for quality before loading the texture.
So right now I'm stuck with software.

Sounds like a driver problem to me.

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:08 pm

What kind of driver problem would it be?, openGL worked for me perfectly
in 1.4.

Nadro · Post by **Nadro** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:15 pm

Does GUI look pixelated? This is cause by non filtering in draw2DImage, In BUGs forum I added patch for it;)

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:11 am

Nadro wrote:Does GUI look pixelated? This is cause by non filtering in draw2DImage, In BUGs forum I added patch for it;)

Nadro ownz!

Mirror · Post by **Mirror** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:54 am

try d3d9

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:02 pm

Yeah it looks pixelated, I add the image like this

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IGUIImage* bkg = guienv->addImage(driver->getTexture("C:/Documents and Settings/Tanner/My Documents/Wolfpack/Bitmaps/Gui/main_splash_screen.bmp"),
    position2d<int>(0,0));

I can't upload a screenshot because I don't have any place to host it yet but I'm working on it.

JP · Post by JP » Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:37 pm

Have you tried Photobucket? Image shack? You can always google for free image hosting sites

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:53 pm

You see my mom won't let me have an account yet.

Dorth · Post by **Dorth** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:15 pm

Seriously, how much of a troll can one really be...

Irrlicht Engine

Rendering drivers(solved)

Rendering drivers(solved)

Re: Rendering drivers

openGL

Re: openGL

driver problem?

yeah

umm