help completing an engine

[mh]

[revelator]

true the 945 is rather old last good intel i remember was the 810 but thats ages ago pIII days i think.

[revelator]

hoh look what i digged up

http://www.songho.ca/opengl/gl_tessellation.html

i did hear some time back that opengl could do hardware tesselation but there where some doubts i guess i can put those doubts to rest now.

Me is going to play a bit with that extention

[leileilol]

[revelator]

strange dont remember anything adverse from my time with it but well its a long time ago so i might be wrong or just lucky
though thats the only intel gfx card i had so cant compare it.

[mh]

[revelator]

Noticed though i read a bit up on opengl versions 3.1 and 4 should be capable of supporting it in hardware though i havent found a lot of documentation on the subject.
So the question would rather be which gfx cards support what.

Btw thanks for the tip about the nvidia driver i tried it with my new gfx card and though it was stable (enough) with the new one the older version runs better.
Im rewriting large parts of realms renderer atm using a port of your Q2 code (mostly the backend).
I have also updated your Q2 code so it runs with newer drivers etc. so if anyone want to use it as a base for an engine i can upload the fixed source.
Also looking at an option to do shadowmapping to finally get away with the dreadfull shadow code from quake.