Absolute minimum hardware requirement for jME3

Development
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Hi all,



I am planning to upgrade my software from jME 2 to jME 3 and I am just wondering what is the absolute minimum graphics card requirement to run jME3? The wiki page states Intel graphics X4500, is that still accurate?



I have a lab full of generic machines with built-in intel chipset (I’m not sure what card specifically), but jME 2 runs fine on it. Just wondering if this is something that I have to worry about when I upgrade to jME 3.



Thanks

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Yes it can be something to worry about,

jME 3 is based on shaders, this means your graphic hardware need to support at least OpenGL 2.0.



You can have an overview of what intel cards support on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_X4500

and X4500 seems to be ok

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It looks like openGL 2.0 support goes all the way back to X3000. I suppose I should write a test on it to see if it runs on my lab computers, but is it safe to say that jME3 could run on the X3000?

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How about downloading jME3 and try all the examples?

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Yeah I started doing that now… Will report back to the group next week.