[vtkusers] RE: vtkPropPicker not picking

[Nigel Nunn]

nVidia's drivers evolve as fast as their GPUs  :-) 
So far I've only glanced at some results from Intergraph's 
"3D ExerciZer" OpenGL demo -- swapping the May-2000 driver 
that came with my GeForce2 card, with nVidia (beta) 5.32 
detonator drivers raised "3D ExerciZer" frame rates by: 
 
Texture Stress:     40%-55% 
Light Stress:       8% 
Processor Stress:  -2% 
Polygon Stress:     23%-29% 
 
Then there is the evidence that the GeForce cards are Quadras 
with two resistors changed...  the Quadras have all the high-end 
CAD OpenGL features turned on -- AA lines, advanced clipping, 
and I guess a different implementation of hardware picking? 
 
 
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Will Schroeder [mailto:will.schroeder at kitware.com]
|> There is a potential problem to be aware of. That is, some PC boards
|> do not support hardware OpenGL picking. (This is true of my Erasor X
|> board, for example.) It seems that many of these commodity boards 
|> test by running Quake or Doom, and if they work the board is shipped.

-----Original Message-----
> Shouldn't the OpenGL libraries implement the API, even if certain 
> parts of it are not HW accelerated? (Even with an old 2D card, you 
> can run OpenGL apps, even though they're slow. Is there a reason why 
> the picking functionality in OpenGL should be any more dependent than 
> the rest of it on a hardware implementation?)
> 
> Christopher R. Volpe