Re: Weird figures with OpenGL 3.2 and Intel HD3000

On Jan 18, 2012, at 4:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> the same call to glDrawElements takes *20 µs* on average; that’s much less
>> that the customary call to glClear (GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT) that consumes
>> around 90 µs.
>> (BTW, I made a mistake in my first message. On the HD3000, it takes 10 ms,
>> not 10 µs).
> 
> That is a huge difference. To me, it sounds like the rendering is dropping
> into software rendering somewhere. Maybe in the fragment shader? Then the
> number of vertices wouldn't affect the problem.
> 

  What does OpenGL Profiler tell you? If it's software rendering then you 
should be able to break on that.

  FWIW, I saw something similar with glDrawArrays, except in those cases it 
cause the entire screen to freeze and I had to restart (I don't recall the 
hardware at the time, it was on 10.6). The solution in my case was to process 
the data in smaller batches. I think the real cutoff was higher than 500 
elements (below). I think you can get the detailed limits on your card from 
OpenGL Extension Viewer (http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/download.html):

int batchsize = 500;
int batchstart = 0;
int totalData = nobjects;
        
while (batchstart < totalData) {
        int drawsize = batchsize;
        if(drawsize + batchstart > totalData)
                drawsize = totalData - batchstart;
        
        glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS,batchstart,drawsize);
        
        batchstart += drawsize;
}

  Not sure if any of that is relevant here though.

Dave

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Saint Louis University
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