How OpenGL drivers caches textures in VRAM
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How OpenGL drivers caches textures in VRAM
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@frob I guess it would have to load the entire texture into VRAM
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I heard that behind the scenes the OpenGL driver automatically loads and unloads textures into VRAM as they are being used. (i.e glBindTexture doesn't actually load the textureโฆ
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Supposing you have a huge amount of textures to send to the GPU, but you only use some them rarely. What's the best strategy?a) Load everything at game start up and let OpenGL jโฆ
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See all in Discussions@frob I guess it would have to load the entire texture into VRAM
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frob said:It's an implementation detail. OpenGL doesn't specify the existence of graphics hardware, nor VRAM. There are software-only implementations like โฆ
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