Hi Martijn, - I am fine with the OpenGL error / warning, that is a good idea and hopefully saves us some "Blender does not run" reports.
- Getting rid of the launcher is a good idea, but I don't think we should set a global environment variable. The shortcut idea might be the best, even though there is no guarantee that the user actually starts Blender via that. Thomas Am 25.11.2014 um 14:49 schrieb Martijn Berger: > 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
