Hi Thomas, "The shortcut idea might be the best, even though there is no guarantee that the user actually starts Blender via that." -> this is why we need a good way to give a user feedback to some system / configuration issue that is impacting his/her blender experience. But how do we do that part ?
Martijn On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Thomas Dinges <blen...@dingto.org> wrote: > Hi Martijn, > > - I am fine with the OpenGL error / warning, that is a good idea and > hopefully saves us some "Blender does not run" reports. > > - Getting rid of the launcher is a good idea, but I don't think we > should set a global environment variable. > The shortcut idea might be the best, even though there is no guarantee > that the user actually starts Blender via that. > > Thomas > > Am 25.11.2014 um 14:49 schrieb Martijn Berger: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I would like to propose > > > > - actually checking the OpenGL context when starting up blender. > > - fatal error when less then the required OpenGL 1.4 is found. > > - warning when less then OpenGL 2.1 is found (Nvidia NV30 released > in > > 2003) > > > > There are some technical issue with giving the fatal error as it > might > > be best to use an OS dependent dialog box explaining that blender cannot > > run on windows at least. > > Mac OS X is unaffected as all versions we support guarantee at > least > > this capability. > > > > On windows at least this would make sure the bugs reported by > people > > using GDI driven OpenGL 1.1 will not happen. Also it would get our users > > who still use blender on an pentium 3 with windows XP the ability to > adjust > > to the fact that it might not always continue to work with the latest and > > greatest. > > > > - getting rid of the launcher. > > On windows we have a binary launcher that exists only to set an OPENMP > > related environment variable. > > I would like to get rid of this again in favour of setting it in the > > short-cut or setting the variable globally during install. > > Also we could and should check for this in the "System Info". > > > > > > Both of these issues touch on the issue of giving the user feedback about > > his or her system configuration / hardware / settings and how they might > > negatively impact blenders performance. I would like feedback on how to > > handle these. > > > > Martijn > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers