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OK why can my crappy old laptop have 16 preview lights?

WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,583
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

OK why can my crappy old laptop have 16 preview lights?
but my nice Geforce GTX 760 powered Desktop only 8?

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  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited October 2014

    I'm curious too since GTX 980 is also limited at 8 in the ds view port.

    Spose doesn't really matter anyway, 4+ looks over exposed in view port, though would be cool to select which lights to preview. I'm just curious what it is that determines the light limit in viewport.

    Post edited by SpyroRue on
  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    It's set by the OpenGL specs of the graphics card and its driver — I'm actually surprised to see a laptop system supporting 16 lights, the standard for most non-professional-level cards (which are all amazingly powerful and hideously expen$$$ive) is only 8.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,583
    edited December 1969

    it was my first real computer
    (I do not count the windows 98 one I learnt on the year before)
    got it end of 2008
    no graphics card just an integrated chip and studio crashes loading almost anything on it
    reason I used carrara all these years, it handled carrara and Poser too not studio

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,251
    edited December 1969

    It says it previews 16 lights but does it actually show 16 lights if you load them all?
    I think your laptop's bragging,

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,583
    edited December 1969

    I does, I tried it
    looked at each light in turn and could see effect in preview,
    but it crashed before I could render result, loading a cube!!!!
    I did say it was a crappy laptop!

  • Takeo.KenseiTakeo.Kensei Posts: 1,303
    edited October 2014

    Because it can. That depends on the constructor and it's OpenGL implementation

    See "http://feedback.wildfiregames.com/report/opengl/device/Intel 965/963 Graphics Media Accelerator"

    There is one parameter to look for : GL_Max_Lights. That one will give you the max number of preview light for DS

    It seems the intel 965 really can go up to 16

    If you look at the GTX 780 for example, the max number is 8 =>"http://feedback.wildfiregames.com/report/opengl/device/GeForce GTX 780"

    Same goes for the GTX 760 =>"http://feedback.wildfiregames.com/report/opengl/device/GeForce GTX 760"

    [EDIT] Can't seem to be able to make links with address that contain spaces. You'll have to copy/paste without the quotes

    Post edited by Takeo.Kensei on
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