Hey guys, I'm working on some OpenGL code and I noticed some peculiarities on one of my machines which don't happen on any of the other ones. After messing around with my code I managed to get it working but I have no idea why the changes I made caused it to work, and how to detect this other than hardcoding the renderer's name, so I decided to ask here.
GL_VERSION 4.5.13417
GL_RENDERER AMD Radeon HD 5700 Series
GLSL 440
I've also tested using a core, core and forward compat, compatibility and default OpenGL profile.
Here's what I'm doing each frame:
- I upload vertex data to a VertexBuffer using glMapBufferRange with GL_MAP_WRITE_BIT | GL_MAP_INVALIDATE_BUFFER_BIT | GL_MAP_FLUSH_EXPLICIT_BIT
- I then flush the range of data which was mapped using glFlushMappedBufferRange
- I unmap the buffer
- One of the attributes of the vertex data is an int specifying the texture index within the shader.
- I bind and activate a series of textures, up to the number specified by MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS which on this driver is 18.
- In the fragment shader, I index a uniform array of samplers to determine which texture the vertex uses.
- uniform sampler2D textures[TEXTURE_COUNT]
When performing this I get the result in the attached video. Random flickering, and sometimes the last texture being drawn is not displayed. I'd like to stress that I have checked the parameters that go into the functions stated below and have tested them on a variety of machines and GPUs including the Mesa3D llvmpipe, and therefore do not believe my ranges are wrong, but rather that I'm making a wrong assumption somewhere.
I got the scene to render properly by using only "GL_MAP_WRITE_BIT" and by limiting my activated textures (and uniform array size) to 1. The driver specifies that it supports both the GL_ARB_gpu_shader5 extension (which I've tried to request) and I'm using GLSL 440 therefore uniform indexing of opaque types should work. Additionally, I do not see why the invalidate buffer and flush explicit bits would cause problems either, considering the stated driver support.
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could shed some insight on this.
