On Tuesday 20 January 2004 16.53, Martijn Sipkema wrote: [...] > > The driver is supposed to just clip at 2048x2048. Some tester > > concluded it does on Windoze, but I haven't tried it on the Linux > > drivers. (Though they even have the same bugs as the Windows > > drivers, so I'd guess they're pretty closely related...) > > Perhaps, with a performance penalty, these very large windows could > be rendered in multiple passes...
Yes... The driver actually contains that kind of code already. It's used when rendering directly into a window (ie single buffered) that is partially covered by other windows, so that the OpenGL area becomes non-rectangular. (Seems like most drivers simply don't support single buffering in windowed mode, thus avoiding this stuff entirely.) I accidentally found out because the retrace sync is done in the wrong place. The driver ends up sync'ing once for each one of the sub rectangles that the window is split into... *hehe* //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .- Audiality -----------------------------------------------. | Free/Open Source audio engine for games and multimedia. | | MIDI, modular synthesis, real time effects, scripting,... | `-----------------------------------> http://audiality.org -' --- http://olofson.net --- http://www.reologica.se ---
