Am 02.02.2016 um 20:41 schrieb Marek Olšák: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Roland Scheidegger <srol...@vmware.com> wrote: >> Does anyone use these extensions? >> I suppose maybe to get the total amount of video memory? >> From the dynamic counts, I would have thought the eviction one would be >> the most interesting, but this one isn't implemented. Ah well I guess a >> sloppily implemented extension is better than none. > > I know from personal experience that Unreal Engine 3 uses one of them > (or maybe both), because it crashed when I had a bug there. I've heard > the Source engine uses them too. > > The use case for modern games is to support texture paging, i.e. > loading texture pages on demand based on on-screen visibility of > textures and available memory.
But do they really use available memory or just total memory? Anyway, I guess if it's used that's ok, I'm just not a fan of odd fringe vendor specific extensions. Roland _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
