Totally different rendering results under different display modes?

Question

I had this problem a long time ago and recently I got some clues on it but still not very clear.

I basically render a texture to a existing figure using depth-testing. The function works fine under nvdia graphics card, but not on intel graphics card (sometimes the picture not stable, some times just junks).

First I think this might be the card problem. Recently I found if I changed the display mode in choosepixelformat,it works also great on the intel card.

I tried also the mode chosen by the getpixelformat function, and guess it might be due to the depth precision problem, I tried some techniques recommended on opengl FAQ, but no success. I tried several RGBA display modes, and they are (only modes with double buffers are used and they are 2,4,6,9,10, 13,14):

      Draw Pixel Color             Depth Stencil Double Stereo Aux    
Index To   Type  Bits  R  G  B  A  Bits  Bits    Buffer Buffer Buffers
======================================================================

2     win  rgba  32    8  8  8  8  .     .       yes    .      .      
4     win  rgba  32    8  8  8  8  16    .       yes    .      .      
6     win  rgba  32    8  8  8  8  24    8       yes    .      .      
9     win  rgba  32    8  8  8  .  32    8       yes    .      .      
10    win  rgba  32    8  8  8  .  16    8       yes    .      .      
13    win  rgba  32    8  8  8  8  32    8       yes    .      .      
14    win  rgba  32    8  8  8  8  16    8       yes    .      .

The modes which display correctly are 2, 9, 10, 13, 14. The failed ones are 4, 6. The windows chooses mode 4.

Anyone can give me some hints?

Thanks for the comments and here I add the bad rendering & the good rendering picture on the same machine. One is mode 4 and one is mode 10:

sorry! The system does not allow me to paste the image here

The bad one pasted here is just one of them, some may show other strange pictures.

Partial code: OpenGL initialization

    m_pDC = new CClientDC(this);
//m_pDC = new CPaintDC(this);
m_hDC=m_pDC->GetSafeHdc();

static PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR pfd =
{
sizeof(PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR), // size of this pfd
1, // version number
 PFD_DRAW_TO_WINDOW | // support window
 PFD_SUPPORT_OPENGL | // support OpenGL
 PFD_DOUBLEBUFFER, // double buffered
 PFD_TYPE_RGBA, // RGBA type
 24, // 24-bit color depth
 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // color bits ignored
 0, // no alpha buffer
 0, // shift bit ignored
 0, // no accumulation buffer
 0, 0, 0, 0, // accum bits ignored
 16, // 16-bit z-buffer
 0, // no stencil buffer
 0, // no auxiliary buffer
 PFD_MAIN_PLANE, // main layer
 0, // reserved
 0, 0, 0 // layer masks ignored
 };
 int m_PixelFormat;
 //we may need to rewrite this function since it does not need the alpha bits
 m_PixelFormat = ::ChoosePixelFormat(m_hDC, &pfd);

 ::SetPixelFormat(m_hDC, m_PixelFormat, &pfd);
//::SetPixelFormat(m_hDC, 10, &pfd);
//
m_hRC = ::wglCreateContext( m_hDC );
wglMakeCurrent( m_hDC, m_hRC ); 

wglMakeCurrent(NULL,NULL);

return TRUE;

Rendering is in the WM_PAINT message function: ::glEnable( GL_DEPTH_TEST ); ::glPolygonMode( GL_FRONT_AND_BACK,GL_FILL);

::glViewport( 0, 0, rcClient.Width() , rcClient.Height() );

     ....
    draw(...);

The draw function will be like this:

gluPerspective(90, width/height, 0.001, height/1);

glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();

gluLookAt(cx,cy,cz,cx,cy,0,0,1,0);

then draw the map here...... glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);

then draw the lines & other objects here...

all objects are all in 2D vertex format, no any 3D depth values.

Your description of the problem is very vague. Please supply some code and description of the exact steps in the rendering process. Also screenshots would be nice. — datenwolf

shangping shangping · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-19T04:47:56

I forgot to put back my solutions on this question. It turns out that it is a problem of the intel card hardware acceleration. I tried to turn off the hardware acceleration by choosing a software rendering, the problem disappeared.

Totally different rendering results under different display modes?

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