Thank you all, but there is still a problem. I tried to run the demo on an Athlon 700 with an Elsa Erazor X (GeForce), latest Elsa-drivers and I got a slide-show, too (software rendering). Has anyone this sort of configuration and any idea what happens??? (
I have a Erazor X lattest Elsa drivers
but I have a Dual PII 400 w2k and it is uesing hardware rendering. So you problem must be with the Althon(not all that likly) or the setup of the computer since the erazor X and the Elsa drivers seem to be working ok.
Originally posted by Marc: I had the opportunity to run the demo myself on a GeForce and it did only software-rendering. I don’t know, why, but I think I shold post my initialisaton-code. Perhaps you have any idea. Sorry.
I have a GeForce card and it runs quite well, I am wondering if you have multiple monitors as this will cause problems?
I was really impressed with the metaball part of the demo at the end. I was wondering what rendering technique you used to generate them. Marching cube? Marching
Tetrahedron?
Hmm I notice no one in this thread indicates running it on a Voodoo 3. I’m curious how it performs on it. Because I’m writing my own app and on a Voodoo 3 the results are astoundingly poor. Including improperly scaled textures and software rendering speed.
It was even crashing on the Voodoo3 but I fixed that after getting rid of just one unnecessary modelview matrix push and pop that slipped in. And the depth of the stack was never more than 3 to begin with and from what I understand, the modelview stack is supposed to have a depth of at least 32. Anybody have any clue what could be wrong? Or what I should look out for on Voodoo cards in particular. Otherwise my app runs just fine on TNT, TNT2 and GeForce cards. And I’m not using any vendor specific extensions either.
With the 3dfx cards, they used Glide to take advantage of the hardware… But their openGL and DirectX was buggy… Anyway, with the new drivers, you can do stuff in opengl and it’ll run great…
Originally posted by masterpoi: What is the use of writing demo’s? Showing your skills… (Yust Curious)
Fun?! I like it to program nice visual effects and view them myself. Then I put the effects together and I have a demo (not that simple, but…). (I have also written four demos in pascal/asm on DOS but finaly I have never released them.)
[This message has been edited by Marc (edited 07-19-2000).]