Description… VBO reused index
Driver… any NV driver
I have made a small test app that creates VBOs for shadow volumes when a light is stopped and they are not updated for a while to get higher performance. When the light moves again the VBOs are dropped. To get a distributed load on the driver over a number of frames I recylce the VBO ids in batches.
The small test app allocates 10 index and then drops all these in a batch. This works fine with non indexed geometry but when I use indexed geometry, the app bails out on the second draw call. I guess it triggers the first one…
First i get id 1…10 for vbo id by glGenBuffers
The draw calls uses then 1,3,5 etc for GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER and 2,4,6… for GL_ARRAY_BUFFER
Then after 10 allocations i drop all the used VBOs id with a glDeleteBuffers and this works ok
Then i allocate just like before and get id 1 for GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER and id 2 for GL_ARRAY_BUFFER
The first draw call is ok but the app crashes in DrvCopyContext in the second draw call using these “reallocated” id when i use indexed geometry. Non index version works fine. All indexes are fine, sizes of buffers ok.
I use glDrawRangeElements(GZ_TRIANGLE_STRIP… for the draw call.
Any hints ?? My mistake ?? Driver ??
Test files…
You can find test at http://www.gizmosdk.com/download/demos/win32/nvbugg.zip
Run the runme.bat and press ‘l’ (small L) to get the light stop movin. After approx 5 presses, the 10 VBO ids are recylced and the app allocates id 1 and 2 again. So go ahead and press ‘l’ a number of times…
