[Bf-committers] Windows platform things to do before 2.73

[Antony Riakiotakis]

I'm not sure if setting the OpenMP variable system wide is a nicer solution
than what we have, but +1 from me on warning about crappy OpenGL.

On 25 November 2014 at 14:49, Martijn Berger <martijn.berger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to propose
>
> - actually checking the OpenGL context when starting up blender.
>    - fatal error when less then the required OpenGL 1.4 is found.
>    - warning when less then OpenGL 2.1 is found (Nvidia  NV30 released in
> 2003)
>
>      There are some technical issue with giving the fatal error as it might
> be best to use an OS dependent dialog box explaining that blender cannot
> run on windows at least.
>      Mac OS X is unaffected as all versions we support guarantee at least
> this capability.
>
>      On windows at least this would make sure the bugs reported by people
> using GDI driven OpenGL 1.1 will not happen. Also it would get our users
> who still use blender on an pentium 3 with windows XP the ability to adjust
> to the fact that it might not always continue to work with the latest and
> greatest.
>
> - getting rid of the launcher.
>   On windows we have a binary launcher that exists only to set an OPENMP
> related environment variable.
>   I would like to get rid of this again in favour of setting it in the
> short-cut or setting the variable globally during install.
>   Also we could and should check for this in the "System Info".
>
>
> Both of these issues touch on the issue of giving the user feedback about
> his or her system configuration / hardware / settings and how they might
> negatively impact blenders performance. I would like feedback on how to
> handle these.
>
> Martijn
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