Re: Modern day minimum PC spec to run CS

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On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 23:27 +0530, Soumitra Saxena wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I'm probably not the most experienced person to contribute to this
> discussion ( I'm participating in GSoC 2014 under Crystal Space). I
> just felt that I should post my experience compiling Crystal Space for
> the first time in Ubuntu 13.04 with a AMD Graphics Card.
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> I feel that CS is targeted a lot toward nvidia chips. The prerequisite
> libraries even include apt-get commands to nvidia-settings and
> drivers. The first time I compiled CS, it ran perfectly, but a reboot
> later, my Unity (the desktop) broke, and the entire system had to be
> restored by removing the selected nvidia settings and reconfiguring my
> X-Org drivers.
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> I agree that CS requires the Cg library, thus maybe those nvidia
> settings and drivers were important in some way, but even after
> removing them, I am yet to face any errors.
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> I just feel that support for AMD Chipsets must also be included
> explicitly, and a possible turnaround should be found for the nvidia
> installations, because they will break every system with AMD cards, in
> my opinion.
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> Cheers.=20
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At the time of the 2.0 release CS was a little too Cg that is true and
was documented as such. Both these things will change for the next
release. Cg will be deprecated and GLSL will be the primary.

Oh... If anyone from AMD is listening. We are a free project and a few
free sample cards to better support your hardware/drivers would not be
turned down. :-)

Regards

Phil

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