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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

would this work on the useless 945 chipset or whichever one it is that
reports having hte right opengl features but does not?

On 24 March 2017 at 13:39, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah, good autosave helps.
>
> To be fair this is a bit offtopic - what I want really is a properly
> functioning way to check if OpenGL works, not a way to clean up if it
> doesn't. The fact that that involves containing an unavoidable crash in
> a child process is a bit of an implementation detail IMO ;)
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:34:39PM -0400, Jon Evans wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Remember, once a crash has actually
>> > occurred in the main program you're already past the point of no return
>> > for possible data loss.
>> >
>> >
>> One alternative approach which can work quite well (Mentor Graphics does
>> this) is to get a really good auto-save system going.  The better the
>> auto-save system, the less likely it is that any crash could cause data
>> loss.  Of course, crashes in general are a bad user experience, but if you
>> open the program back up and your work is right there, it feels a bit
>> better :-)
>>
>> -J
>
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