Comments on: NVidia: 4 Ben: 0 https:/2014/12/nvidia-4-ben-0/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:49:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Ben Supnik https:/2014/12/nvidia-4-ben-0/#comment-9751 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:49:56 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5981#comment-9751 In reply to Alain Champs.

We use the legacy OpenGL profile because we need ARB_compatibility; this gets us GL 2.1.
OpenGL 4.1 is only available to clients who use the core profile only.

OpenGL 4.1 would expose new features to x-plane that x-plane would then have to be modified to take advantage of; simply running on a newer GL version doesn’t directly change anything.

]]> By: Alain Champs https:/2014/12/nvidia-4-ben-0/#comment-9750 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:08:20 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5981#comment-9750 In reply to Alain Champs.

I see in the log:
OpenGL Version : 2.1 NVIDIA-10.0.43 310.41.05f01 (210/0)

but Mac is now up to 4.1?
iMac (27 pouces, fin 2013) NVIDIA Geforce GTX 775M 4.1(open GL) 1.2(Open CL).

before it was 3.1.

would it give us benefice to go to 4.1 or is there something i don’t know that would prevent to go to that version?

Thank you Ben

]]> By: Ben Supnik https:/2014/12/nvidia-4-ben-0/#comment-9748 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 00:35:56 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5981#comment-9748 In reply to Manuel.

They support instancing and it is already enabled. There will be no improvement because there is no problem.

]]> By: Ben Supnik https:/2014/12/nvidia-4-ben-0/#comment-9747 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 00:33:32 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5981#comment-9747 In reply to Tom Knudsen.

This is strictly Mac only; there is no problem and there will be no change on Windows.

]]> By: Manuel https:/2014/12/nvidia-4-ben-0/#comment-9746 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 00:33:30 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5981#comment-9746 It is great news i do own a gtx780 based imac and it suffered a lot while increasing number of objects beyond default. What about newest imacs that moved to amd? Do they support instacing? Should we see any improvement there as well?

]]> By: Alain Champs https:/2014/12/nvidia-4-ben-0/#comment-9743 Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:03:56 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5981#comment-9743 That is good news, do you have ETA for the update? I run NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 Mo, and Yosemite. I did fix all scenery (Many people as got your message 🙂 lots of updated scenery available now).

Honestly I did get crash like once in a full moon. But nothing since all logs are clear of error. 10.10 is stable to me.

When you will release a new patch add some scenery (the gnome team) will look after the error. We are with you Ben don’t give up.

]]> By: Tom Knudsen https:/2014/12/nvidia-4-ben-0/#comment-9742 Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:21:30 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5981#comment-9742 Does bugfixing and patching for Mac impact Win or Linux, and would Nvidia instancing impact performance the same for all distros or is it just card type and size dependant?

Reason for asking is that I want to know if the > 5% increasment in performance for Macs will have any similar effects on Windows?

]]> By: stevetsuida https:/2014/12/nvidia-4-ben-0/#comment-9741 Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:27:44 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=5981#comment-9741 Developers: Even if you’re not into flight sims, follow Ben’s X-Plane blog. I wish more of my vendors were like Ben. http://t.co/YID1AEinQx

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