JavaFX 3D on older GPUs

[Kevin Rushforth]

Pretty much any AMD (ATI) or NVidia card in the last 5 years or so will 
be fine. Intel HD is fine.

-- Kevin


Joseph Andresen wrote:
> Usually shader model 3 or better is perfect for prism.
>
> Anything else guys??
>
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> On May 23, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Kim Topley <kimtopley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is there a list of the reasons why a card might not be supported? If I were going to buy a laptop and wanted to be sure it would be supported by Prism, what would I look for?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Joseph Andresen <joseph.andresen at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Your card is not supported by prism. You can check if a system supports 3d by using the isSupported method (can't remember where .. Maybe in application). I know ensemble does this and instantiates a parallel camera if 3d is not supported.
>>
>> As for why it isn't supported, there are a lot of reasons that lead to a card not being supported, usually it fails to meet one of our minimal requirements.
>>
>>
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>> On May 20, 2012, at 8:32 AM, Adam Granger <adam at adamish.com> wrote:
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>>     
>>> Yes depth test enabled, I'm trying to run some code that worked fine under
>>> Windows/JavaFX 2.0
>>>
>>> http://www.adamish.com/tmp/jfx_depth_buffer_bug/DepthBufferProblems.java
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Did you enable depth testing?
>>>>
>>>> Am 20.05.2012 12:24, schrieb Adam Granger:
>>>>         
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to get JavaFX going on my somewhat ageing first-gen Intel
>>>>> iMac (GPU - ATI Radeon X1600) using JavaFX 2.2 b08. However, anything I
>>>>> do involving 3D (PerspectiveCamera + depthTest etc)  does not render
>>>>> correctly... as if there is no depth buffer - like I saw 6 months ago:
>>>>> http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-17446
>>>>>
>>>>> I've done some digging around, and found this:
>>>>>
>>>>> "If your system does not support Prism, then JavaFX uses the Java2D
>>>>> software pipeline under Prism."
>>>>> http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/system_requirements/jfxpub-system_requirements.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> ==========
>>>>> This was the output I got using -Dprism.verbose=true
>>>>> Prism pipeline init order: es2 j2d
>>>>> Using t2k for text rasterization
>>>>> Using dirty region optimizations
>>>>> Prism pipeline name = com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Pipeline
>>>>> Loading ES2 native library ...
>>>>>    succeeded.
>>>>> (X) Got class = class com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Pipeline
>>>>> **** GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object detected ****
>>>>> Failed ES2GPUQualifier check.
>>>>> System GPU doesn't meet the es2 pipe requirement
>>>>> GraphicsPipeline.createPipeline: error initializing pipeline
>>>>> com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Pipeline
>>>>> *** Fallback to Prism SW pipeline
>>>>> Prism pipeline name = com.sun.prism.j2d.J2DPipeline
>>>>> (X) Got class = class com.sun.prism.j2d.J2DPipeline
>>>>> Initialized prism pipeline: com.sun.prism.j2d.J2DPipeline
>>>>> ==========
>>>>>
>>>>> Questions:
>>>>> 1) do these sys reqs also apply to the 2.2 Mac builds
>>>>> 2) is this true that if your GPU is not supported then only 2D support
>>>>> is provided? or is it more likely I'm going something wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam.
>>>>>           
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