19 Jan
2004
19 Jan
'04
7:37 p.m.
[...]
I just remembered; the Matrox G100/200/400 drivers
and/or hardware has
problems with multiple OpenGL contexts. Matrox have known about it
for ages, but seem to ignore the problem. This is part of the reason
why I gave up on my G400.
Most likely a driver problem (or elsewhere in the software). I don't think
there's
_that_ much "context" on a G400 anyway...
That said, IIRC, you *can* still get multiple windows
(different
processes) accelerated. If so, why not windows on different
desktops...?
It should not be a problem as far as I can tell really...
I'm not an export though...
I do think we should use OpenGL more. That way the problems that
may exist will eventually get fixed :)
And besides, it _is_ a very nice graphics API.
--ms