[QGIS-Developer] 3D view bare minimum requirements

[Martin Dobias]

Hi again

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Thank you for your answer.
>
> He uses windows (not sure the version) and has an ATI FireGL V graphic
> card, which he wasn't able to say the correct version.
>
> I have checked, and the most recent card of that model is from 2009, and
> the most recent driver from 2015... So it's a quite old setup.
>
Okay, that's a really old graphics card. From wikipedia, it looks like the
highest version of OpenGL supported on those cards is 3.3 - too low. I
don't think it's worth trying to make it work on such old hardware...


> Given that OpenGL is a requirement, do you think we should add that to the
> documentation both in the 3D viewer part and the working with point cloud
> data?
>

For point cloud data, one doesn't strictly need OpenGL - only for the 3D
viewer, OpenGL is a must. Something that's on my wish list is that if we
fail to start OpenGL view, we should show a decent error message (with some
hints) rather than opening a broken window. Addition to documentation would
be also nice...

Cheers
Martin
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