Taronites

Verve is probably the coolest piece of software I have ever seen, but I've got a mac and I can't really use it! ;_;

BUT there is hope. It runs under wine (http://winehq.org), but it is not usable.

Here's what it looks like:


I tried playing with the registry, but no difference. Hopefully we can solve this!

How to install wine under OSX:

• PlayOnMac - http://www.playonmac.com/en/
• Homebrew - http://brew.sh/
  

    Code:

  brew install wine

Here's some info about my system:

The graphics drivers somehow seem to fail there. Since Verve is 90% GLSL (openGL Shader Language), it relies on your graphics card and their drivers. Your card is perfect, I believe! Any chance you can make sure you get the latest drivers to work?

Thanks for the quick reply Taron! I've studied graphics programming during university and I am humbled to be talking to a real life graphics super-jesus.
As far as I know, the drivers are updated automatically during OS updates. I don't think I can update them manually. This is OSX after all...

I ran wine under debug mode, and got a list of the extensions/instructions that are not supported:


What I don't understand is why the layer preview window (bottom right) is working properly... I guess it's not using the same video buffer (or whatever it's called!) as the main view?
I'm also not sure if the extensions are not supported by my graphics card/driver or by wine itself. You are saying it's by the graphics card?

Cool, if I force my computer to use the integrated GPU (Intel HD Graphics 4000), I can see the canvas properly:


As expected though, performance is not super great hehe. As soon as I turn up fluidity, I get probably around 10fps.

Strangely enough, I still get the same "not supported" warnings:



Anyway, I guess because it works under the integrated card, but not the nvidia one, it must be a driver/gpu issue.

Wah, that's almost ironic. Rotten Intel HD 4000, haha, they've got the same card in the Cintiq and it drove me nuts.
I'm far from being a Graphics Jesus, hahaha, and this warning list may well be evidence for that, because I don't do any checking for extensions. These are also a little bit out of my hand, because between BlitzMax GL framework and glut there are a number of things I merely rely upon.
Too bad you can't have your machine be a dual boot, because I'm quite certain the windows drivers for the card should have no troubles of that kind. The Nvidia should be a tornado compared to the Intel. Evil, to know that you have all the stuff, but can't let it do its thing.

Anyway, if you turn fluidity down to 0%, even the Intel card works fine. Odd that the colorwheel shader wouldn't work, though, hehe, this GL nonsense...I've long given up. At least all this is cross platform, so ... bets are off to begin with.

Thanks for testing all this and to keep trying. That's really great! Sorry it's such a pain, of course.