Re: disconnected texture tiles

[James C G. <jge...@ro...>]

On Mon, 2006-14-08 at 02:07 +0200, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
> That's a known bug in those applications. I submitted a fix to ppracer 
> some time ago, which was merged. If you can name other applications, I 
> suppose authors will be interested in patches as well. Tuxracer is not 
> maintained though, so there is nowhere to send a patch.
> Well that explains why tuxracer, heavygear2 and mohaa look right on my laptop, which has an nvidia card in it. It seems that a lot of the old loki games have this problem. I just saw it on the fakk2 splash screen too.

> FYI, all this was started by a non-conformant behaviour of the clamping 
> mode on nvidia drivers, and people not testing with other drivers than 
> the proprietary nvidia ones (which don't have this issue because of 
> their buggy clamping behaviour). And now nvidia doesn't want to fix that 
> behaviour, because that would expose those bugs (although some versions 
> of the windows driver have a configuration checkbox to "enable 
> conformant clamping behaviour").
> 
> Stephane
> 


I don't suppose there is an environment variable to set the default
state of the context, like the checkbox you described above?