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No Grass Shader - AMD Graphics - Debian Testing

Graphics issues like: bad framerates, weird colors, OpenGL errors etc. Bad graphics ar usually the result of bad graphics cards or drivers.
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Re: No Grass Shader - AMD Graphics - Debian Testing

Postby Dogers » Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:52 am

Okay, thank you for your responses. At least, it is not a too serious issue and absolutely not needed for a good simulation experience. We will see if it get fixed in the long term future.
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Re: No Grass Shader - AMD Graphics - Debian Testing

Postby wlbragg » Wed Sep 11, 2019 6:38 pm

What sucks about this is this is a Linux driver issue. Same card and FG system works fine on Windows. It's reared its ugly head on my new Linux system and I am not happy about it.

I was wondering, disregarding breaking other shaders, by simply changing shader versions to +3.x in the geometry-shader.xml file and associated effects files, would that effectively change the possibility of using the geometry shader with the AMD card by eliminating the need for EXT version4 seeings how more recent OpenGL version should just work with this?

I have someone way smarter than me coming to help me later this week. Maybe we can find a solution for this.
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Re: No Grass Shader - AMD Graphics - Debian Testing

Postby icecode » Wed Sep 11, 2019 8:47 pm

The problem is that FG is running in an OpenGL 2.0 context, which (in theory) doesn't allow a GLSL version greater than 120.

Geometry shaders are either supported as an extension for pre-3.0 versions or as a core feature starting on 3.0. Some drivers don't even bother implementing some extensions/features because they just don't need too. The OpenGL specification only guarantees core features to be available. There is just no way around this, we completely depend on the driver developer here.
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