Re: [osg-users] ATI driver quality?

2011-04-06 Thread Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
Thanks everybody. It looks like NVidia might be my best choice still. Will keep an eye on the situation. -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere. xe...@alphapixel.com http://www.alphapixel.com/ Digital Imaging. OpenGL. Scene Graphs. GIS. GPS. Training. Consulting. Contracting. "Ther

Re: [osg-users] ATI driver quality?

2011-04-06 Thread Glenn Waldron
Chris, We regularly test osgEarth against ATI cards. For the most part things work fine; there are a couple issues though: - The GLSL compiler on ATI is strict, whereas NVIDIA's is very forgiving. Not a bad thing, but underscores the importance of testing on ATI - Uniform array addressing is han

Re: [osg-users] ATI driver quality?

2011-04-06 Thread Fred Smith
Hi, I'm working with both ATI/AMD and nVidia hardware, almost on a daily basis. I've had a lot of bugs with AMD drivers with regards to GLSL shader development, mainly in the compiler. It's been six months I am working with them to help them fix bugs, which they have done, but I still have a few

Re: [osg-users] ATI driver quality?

2011-04-05 Thread Christian Schulte
Hi Chris, we are using on our helicopter flight simulator build with osg 2.9.11 the ATI Radeon HD5870 withh ATI Eyefinity 6 with 1 Go of DDR5 under Windows 7. I agree with J-S on the fact that the drivers are much more stable than before in concern of OpenGL. However the ATI Catalyst drivers

Re: [osg-users] ATI driver quality?

2011-04-05 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hi Chris, I'm projecting to get a new development system in the next year or so, which means about 6 months of planning before I buy something. Wow, you're a very cautious consumer! :-) I've been on Nvidia for the last few years, and have been mostly happy with the driver support, bu

[osg-users] ATI driver quality?

2011-04-05 Thread Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
I'm projecting to get a new development system in the next year or so, which means about 6 months of planning before I buy something. I've been on Nvidia for the last few years, and have been mostly happy with the driver support, but I'm looking toward ATI/AMD again because NVidia's OpenCL 6