October 18, 2011 at 1:57 pmI’ve been really excited about the new hardware accelerated Stage 3D option in flash, but after doing a bit of reading on it I’ve found out that it will only be supported by graphics cards with drivers newer than 2009 that support Pixel Shader 2+.
I’m wondering why Adobe made the decision to do this seeing as how most flash gamers/developers are in the casual market where older/slower computers are the norm. I looked to see if I could update the driver on my computer but the latest driver I could find was for 2006, so no deal. And anyway, what casual gamer is going to go to the trouble to update their graphics card just to play a flash game. They have a software option, but it’s not worth spending any time developing for it in my opinion.
So I’m just wondering how many people can actually use the hardware rendering.
I found a good test here: Click me!
Make sure you’ve installed the latest update of the flash player (version 11) then scroll down past the tutorial part to the first example in that link. It’ll say in the top left “3D Mode.” Mine says “Software (Direct Blitting).” I think if it’s running on your hardware it’ll tell you “Direct X” or “Open GL.”
The link is a dead end. I’m getting a “so and so not found, care to search for it?” kind of message.
Fixed! Thanks for being “that guy” lol.
Test unsuccessful. Flash Player 11 is not installable on OS X 10.5 and I’m on a dual G5 system. My computer, which I spent a good chunk of change on, is 7 years old. Since it is still a reasonably fast system with less than half my hard drive filled, I see no reason to replace it.
I read that it wasn’t available on OSX 10.5. It’s really hard to believe flash would sacrifice accessibility so much. They’ve been talking about focusing on gaming but they’ve completely abandoned their gaming base, lol…
Hardware acceleration doesn’t work for me, it says “Software (Direct Blitting)” as well.
hmm im running ubuntu 11.10 if it makes any difference and same for me :)
3D mode: software (direct blitting).
The first one works fine for me. The second doesn’t. It says ‘Hardware 3d is turned off, expect poor performance’ but I don’t get any rotating squares.
Win7, AMD6850…
Well I probably wouldn’t play flash games if I had a computer that wasn’t a 6-year-old bottom-range laptop.
See, that’s just what I was thinking too. It’s like, whaaaat?
I can run Doom 3 on my old computer, but I can not render simple triangles on flash stage3D, lol…
When someone takes a big step they leave many things behind, same happened with stage3d(flash), within 2013 I will change my pc, cause I love 3d(stage3d)