Video Card Success Stories?

Question

Hi All,
I'm having problems getting my ATI HD Radeon 4350 card to play nice with Molehill on Ubuntu 10.10.  Does anyone have any success stories (with any Graphics Card / OS combination)? 
Maybe we can use this thread to give those of us who are working on projects some insight into video cards we may want to upgrade to.
Thanks,
Scott

Answer 1

Hey folks,
Previously, I shared my experiences concerning molehill examples and how some examples would work and others would crash before anything was rendered. I'm now convinced that the molehill examples that did work on my machine probably had the Context3D property enableErrorChecking set to true. I've examined source code for the examples I've been playing around with and sure enough, examples that crashed before now worked well when I set enableErrorChecking to true.  Conversely, molehill examples and libraries that are currently working well on my machine have the enableErrorChecking property set to true; setting the property to false makes these examples crash. Here is what the pre-release documentation has to say about this property:
enableErrorChecking:Boolean
If true, calls to clear(), and drawTriangles() are synchronous and  can throw errors. This reduces performance. In the default case, this  member is false.            When error checking is disabled, no attempt is made to check the  success of graphics rendering, eliminating the need to associate any  resulting error condition            with a particular graphics request.  Graphics processing is  simplified and the graphics pipeline is not unnecessarily stalled.
I really wanted to share this bit of information with other linux users. After reading some comments here on this forum and other comments from linux users at mcfunkypants blog I'm convinced that some of us linux users have to set enableErrorChecking to true to get our code working without crashing.