Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Mesa (mesa_7_7_branch): mesa: List Quake3 extensions first.

[Xavier C. <cha...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Jose Fonseca <jfo...@vm...> wrote:
> Indeed, this problems happen with Windows q3arena demo only. Ioquake3, and I believe that the latest windows full quake3 binary too, correctly handles the full extensions list.
>
> However I suspect that quake2 and earliy releases of quake3 arena and quake3 arena demo suffer from limitation.
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> The most worrysome thing here is not quake3 by itself, but the thought that other GL apps  out there may too truncate the GL extension string.
>

Then sorry for the noise, maybe the commit could have made it a bit clearer :)

It does seem that latest version of quake 3 (and ioquake3) use a large
enough buffer of 8192.
But earlier versions of q3 might have used something as short as 512.
Unfortunately, I could not find when exactly it was fixed.

I somehow forgot the obvious fact that there are 20 or more q3 based
proprietary games
(thanks to Patrice Mandin for pointing that out)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_3#Uses_of_the_engine

We would need to test them all in their latest version to know which
ones are still affected and were not fixed. I could not find any
report / information about that either.

Patrice also pointed me to the workaround that nvidia driver provides itself :
http://us.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/190.42/README/chapter-09.html