Random stuff

24 and 25fps coming next year! Linking to Dpreview instead of original because I like them too much:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0910/09102003eos5dfirmware.asp

I’m now officially familiar with Silo. Tenfold of low-poly objects behind, got familiar with basic + some tools and starting to get in to proper speed with the modelling. Actually… I’d be a lot faster if… Let’s step a bit back:

Before I started to work with the project and Silo. I had great problems concerning my OpenGL display drivers. With the most current display drivers from my Radeon X800 (Yep. I have a 5 year old graphics card…!) all the OGL-based software crashed on initialization of OGL. I rolled back couple of versions of display drivers and ended up in a situation where the programs started but they fell back to software rendering. So no OGL again and Silo didn’t work at all with that. Then I rolled a bunch back again and found a display drivers from last fall that worked. I got it working but the rendering is very… very slow. So after I got over the “toddling”-period with Silo my modelling speed exceeded what the frame rate of the viewport gave for me. So that’s capping my progression with the speed and actually cripples my working speed severely.

First of all I’d really like DirectX-rendering for Silo but according to the Silo3d-forums that’s probably not going to happen in the near future. That would of course raise the complexity as the OGL backend helps covering both Win and Mac-platforms so it’s quite understandable. And if you red the last paragraph you probably realised that the real problem is in the AMD/ATI Radeon’s display drivers plus the fact that my card is already wayyy… old. So this is really pushing me for an comp. update. =/ I’ll need an update in any case. I’m very bound to both my CPU and RAM with my photoediting-projects nowadays.

Probably I just have to go for even older display drivers and take the performance hit until I get financially stable enough (after buying this) to buy/setup new comp. =)  Now I’m just stuck with >half a year old drivers and can not update at all. =/