Zerok wants me to spend money on GPU

Zerok wants me to buy new gpu hardware.

Today i was greeted with this message on chobby on ubuntu running proprietary drivers:

Needed OpenGL extension(s) not found:
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine

Update your graphics-card drivers!
Graphics card: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR
OpenGL version: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.3.2


Can somone just make instead an "if" command, or simply ignore the fact and let me have my game with veeeeery slighlty broken visuals instead and simple warning, that i might have rendering issues because of unsupported exotic GL extention that most likely is turned off since im running on minimal graphics anyway and focus on gameplay?

It might be small issue now, but if that would happen every 6 months i wont be changing my gpu / laptop each time some minor graphic detail unrelated to gameplay comes out.

I have mobility radeon, and i assume that there are quite few players with laptops that are not parent bought gaming rigs, but simple ex office ok enough laptops for daily driver, that they grew to like them, that they dont want to change only because small minor graphics detail in game they like...

Graphics drivers are the best there are for linux based system. Propertiary AMD drivers or on another Ubuntu installation a home-grown Ubuntu mesa opensource drivers dont support this exotic ARB extention... so not really sure what developers want me to do here?

The engine was recently updated so that may have caused it. Try 1134 https://springrts.com/dl/buildbot/default/develop/

I doubt that Spring only recently started requiring GL_ARB_texture_env_combine because if you search around you can find threads like these: https://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=773

I hardly call a 12 year old extension exotic.

i checked both of those proprietary drivers, and no clue whats up...

Can you try and update the open source drivers?

I get the same issue. The only difference between when I was on yesterday and today was the updated Spring engine, so I agree that's the most likely culprit.

In any case, I'm using the open-source drivers on Arch Linux, so it's not exclusive to Ubuntu or older hardware. It isn't a new extension, either -- most of the forum posts I've seen involving GL_ARB_texture_env_combine date back five-to-ten years.

I'll keep poking around, see if I can't find a work-around before it gets fixed.

quote: Needed OpenGL extension(s) not found: GL_ARB_texture_env_combine Update your graphics-card drivers! Graphics card: Gallium 0.4 on AMD POLARIS10 (DRM 3.10.0 / 4.11.9-1-ARCH, LLVM 4.0.1) OpenGL version: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.1.4

Well this made me reboot into Linux.
Indeed with latest Intel driver Spring reports that GL_ARB_texture_env_combine is missing, although it may well be a bug since glxinfo reports it's available:
[Spoiler]

Added later: Weird stuff it's only available for 3.0 profile and not available for 4.5

With proprietary NVidia though (I have two GPUs on my laptop) it works well.

quote: Graphics drivers are the best there are for linux based system. Propertiary AMD drivers or on another Ubuntu installation a home-grown Ubuntu mesa opensource drivers dont support this exotic ARB extention... so not really sure what developers want me to do here?

they want you TO RESIGN

I've applied the above engine version because the fix looks highly likely to work. It is a minimum GL requirement change.

When launching engine 1169, there's a very brief black screen with red text mentioning something along the lines of "initializing virtual filesystem". Otherwise, I ran engine 1169 with no noticeable difference to engine 1134.

Thank you for the fix.

ok. reinstalled linux to have zerok, it works ok, on pre xorg revoloution of recent ubuntu systems :) fglrx is ok on 14.04.4 if anyone is curious what is last ubuntu that works with it