Re: [Super-tux-devel] SuperTux

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

Luke-Jr <lu...@da...> writes:

> Just noticed that plans are to be OpenGL-only in the future... Is
> there really a good reason for this?

Yes, it allows us to do a whole bunch of effects that would be insanly
slow without the use of hardware acceleration and thus OpenGL. Some of
the possible effects can be seen at (SuperTux would of course not use
all of them and/or different ones):

 * http://windstille.berlios.de/screenshots.html

> I have seen a few systems in which OpenGL mode is too slow to be
> playable, but software rendering is very good and smooth...

Then either install the right drivers for your graphics card (both ATI
and NVidia provide drivers OpenGL support), buy a new graphic card
(50EUR Geforcefx card will do) or dual boot into a OS that has support
for your graphics card (some laptop users might need to do that).

Graphics card with reasonably good OpenGL support for SuperTux have
been around for more then half a decade, there is really no good
reason to not make use of them today.

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