It's nice to have this bug fixed - long time X-Plane users saw this as soon as they updated from 8-11 to 8-12 - they updated drivers and the sim got weird looking, so they just rolled their drivers back.
But a number of MSFS users have tried the X-Plane demo for the first time using 8-12 drivers and wondered how we could ship such a lousy product. The key, of course, is that MSFS uses DirectX drivers, while X-Plane uses OpenGL drivers, so the 8-12 drivers affected X-Plane but not MSFS.
I've been poking at the FRAMEBUFFER_INCOMPLETE messages that some people get. The best I have so far is: run with --no_fbos and --no_glsl (learn how here). If you get this card and you have 2 GB of RAM, consider turning your rendering settings down a bit.
And 930? I got my last beta stopper fixed today, so it's time for a scotch! I'll post more on the beta tomorrow.
3 comments:
Love this blog!
Looking forward to hearing about 9.30
My experience, at least on Linux, differs. The 8.9 release is the last where VBO's work. Screenshots and a full description/rant on the ATI bugzilla
http://xplanescenery.blogspot.com/2009/02/catalyst-drivers-get-9-1.html
Vomit - I think you are correct; perhaps the GL impementation in Linux is a different branch of code from Windows. Sorry, "Get 9-1" is definitely for windows users.
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