I can only fully agree with this. It becomes a pain to support old systems, especially Windows XP and old GPUs.
Not only do we support hardware / software longer than other 3D software, as Blender is free people can also always stick to an older version. Am 29.01.2013 15:45, schrieb metalliandy: > I guess it comes down to whether we all want to hold Blender hostage > with legacy support or accept that increasing minimum specs will force > some users to upgrade. No other 3d program retains support for the same > length of time that Blender does and even 5 years is much more than most > 3d software vendors support for, which is commendable for Blender, but > we need to be careful that it doesn't hinder Blenders performance or > stops devs adding features that only new(ish) hardware supports. -- Thomas Dinges Blender Developer, Artist and Musician www.dingto.org _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
