[vtk-developers] Rendering bugs on Mac OSX when using vtk with gtk

Valerie Coffman valerie.coffman at nist.gov
Tue Jun 23 14:37:59 EDT 2009


Sean McBride wrote:
> On 6/22/09 4:05 PM, Valerie Coffman said:
>
>   
>> After the latest Mac OSX update, I noticed a bug with rendering vtk data 
>> embedded in gtk windows.
>>     
>
> Which GPU do you have?  10.5.7 had a lot of changes to the ATI drivers:
> <http://lists.apple.com/archives/mac-opengl/2009/May/msg00040.html>
>
> To quote:
> 	- support for GL_EXT_gpu_shader4
> 	- support for GL_EXT_texture_integer
> 	- support for GL_EXT_bindable_uniform
> 	- support for GL_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB
> 	- support for texture fetch in vertex shaders
> 	- lots of minor performance improvements (5-10%)
> 	- fixes for 150+ Radars
>
>   
I have an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512 MB VRAM.  I'm on a MacBook 
Pro.  The bug has also been tested on a Mac desktop with an NVIDIA 
GeForce 7300 GT and the behavior was the same.

I understand there were also changes to the NVIDIA drivers in the 10.5.7 
update.




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