Hi Antony, For the record. I would plan 2 options during installing, 1) set globally 2) set in shortcut
And if it is not set correctly blender might warn about this ( not sure how that would work from UI perspective though ). On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Antony Riakiotakis <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure if setting the OpenMP variable system wide is a nicer solution > than what we have, but +1 from me on warning about crappy OpenGL. > > On 25 November 2014 at 14:49, Martijn Berger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I would like to propose > > > > - actually checking the OpenGL context when starting up blender. > > - fatal error when less then the required OpenGL 1.4 is found. > > - warning when less then OpenGL 2.1 is found (Nvidia NV30 released in > > 2003) > > > > There are some technical issue with giving the fatal error as it > might > > be best to use an OS dependent dialog box explaining that blender cannot > > run on windows at least. > > Mac OS X is unaffected as all versions we support guarantee at least > > this capability. > > > > On windows at least this would make sure the bugs reported by people > > using GDI driven OpenGL 1.1 will not happen. Also it would get our users > > who still use blender on an pentium 3 with windows XP the ability to > adjust > > to the fact that it might not always continue to work with the latest and > > greatest. > > > > - getting rid of the launcher. > > On windows we have a binary launcher that exists only to set an OPENMP > > related environment variable. > > I would like to get rid of this again in favour of setting it in the > > short-cut or setting the variable globally during install. > > Also we could and should check for this in the "System Info". > > > > > > Both of these issues touch on the issue of giving the user feedback about > > his or her system configuration / hardware / settings and how they might > > negatively impact blenders performance. I would like feedback on how to > > handle these. > > > > Martijn > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
