Bobby,
I can say that I'm running with an ATI Rage Pro
and OpenGL with hardware acceleration on Windows NT 4.0
in a window.
You need to have set your display driver to 16 or 32 bit (not 8 or 24) and
you need a relatively up-to-date driver from ATI.
I'm getting good results on NT with driver 5.38.2b08 from
http://www.ati.com/na/pages/spdrivers/drivers.html
Rob
Bobby Martin wrote:
> I'm working on a proof of concept for a video game I'm writing, and I'd like
> to be sure that Java3D can do the job. My difficulty is in getting a system
> set up that does hardware acceleration, so I can see what performance is
> like on such a system.
>
> I've read in one of the faqs on j3d.org that most PC video cards (including
> all Voodoo based cards) don't support OpenGL acceleration in windowed mode.
> I'm assuming the same is true of my RagePro, since my demo runs like a
> wounded dog on it. The DirectX beta version of Java3D gives me a garbled
> error message telling me to "change to bit mode color" (the number of bits
> is an empty space). None of the video card settings I've tried eliminate
> this message.
>
> Has anyone gotten DirectX Java3D running on a RagePro? On any video card?
> I've tried three so far, and all fail in similar ways. Is there a video
> card which I can use on a PC that supports OpenGL in windowed mode?
>
> And, I guess more importantly, how soon does the Java3D development team
> expect Java3D for DirectX to be consistently usable? I'm betting my
> livelihood on the idea that in a year or two, hardware acceleration for
> Java3D will be supported on most video cards. Is it a fool's bet?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bobby
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