VBOs don't work on ATi card

[InfoRital]

Hi,
I've coded a small code where i use VBO with LWJGL. On my PC, which has a Gf 6800 GT card, my code just works fine.
But on my laptop with a ATi X700, i get nothing or it even crashes my computer.

I've made a small jnlp file for testing with JWS.

Could you test it please ? http://www.jigames.info/jws/vbo.jnlp

Warning : if you have an ATi card, it may crash your windows, but i'm not sure.

Thanks.

[EgonOlsen]

Works fine here (Ati X800XT-PE, Cat 5.13).

[princec]

I get a matte purple cube rotating - and ESC doesn't quit!!! EVIL!! Nvidia laptop.

Cas

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[darkprophet]

works fine here too (ATI 9200SE, latest drivers).

Purple rotating cube thingy

DP

[Vorax]

worked for me - I think.  Purple box rotating, but no esc to quit, but it did quit when I tried to alt-tab out. nVidia Geforce 5700

[InfoRital]

Thank for all your replies and sorry for the esc touch, i've completely forgot it  (but on my computer, the scene lasts about 4 sec).
So it must be a driver problem no ?

But there is no update from my laptop constructor (Asus), and with the ATI test program for the installation of the generic driver, it said that i can't install the driver on my laptop... i don't know if i can nevertheless install it.

[kevglass]

Are you sure the 700 series supports the VBO extensions? I know my ATI Mobility 7000 IGP doesn't.

Kev

[princec]

If it didn't he'd get an exception not a crash, right?

Cas

[kevglass]

Maybe.

Kev

[InfoRital]

Are you sure the 700 series supports the VBO extensions? I know my ATI Mobility 7000 IGP doesn't.

Kev

I'm not sure that ATI 7000 IGP and X700 are the same series, are they ?
But i suppose my card supports VBOs because the demo "VBOTest" works on my computer (except if this demo uses vertex arrays, or somethink like that, if VBO extension isn't supported...).

And i got only once a crash, generally, i got juste a black screen during 5sec. I suppose that everything works, except that the cube isn't drawn.

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[EgonOlsen]

I'm not sure that ATI 7000 IGP and X700 are the same series, are they ?

No, of course not. The X700 is a shader 2.0 DX9 compatible card. Basically, it's a cut in half X800 (8 pixel pipelines instead of 16). It's more like a PCIe variant of the 9800. Maybe the Mobility version is even more stripped, but the basic capabilities are the same. It supports VBO for sure. The 7000 IGP is an old DX7 part.

[InfoRital]

A friend had tested it and he got the same issue : a black screen, on a sony vaio laptop, with a Geforce 6400 TC.

I've put here the sources if someone want to take a look on them.