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Video cards
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We generally have good experiences with recent NVIDIA or ATI cards. OpenGL
mode should work with all drivers that use an OpenGL specification >=
2.0. Drivers implementing an older OpenGL specification (>= 1.4) should work
when the 'GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two' extension is present.

On some some integrated Intel cards syncing to the vertical retrace does not seem
to work with the default settings! In those cases, please try using OpenGL set to
"vsync / alternative blocking" (``control.defaults.open_gl=3``).

Working configurations
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Here are some configurations we observed to work:
While Expyriment will run on all video cards, not all configurations seem
to support accurate reports of stimulus presentation times when using the
(default) OpenGL mode with blocking (``control.defaults.opengl=2``; see
also notes below).
We generally have good experiences with NVIDIA cards. OpenGL mode should
work with all drivers that use an OpenGL specification >= 2.0. Drivers
implementing an older OpenGL specification (>= 1.4) should work when the
'GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two' extension is present.

Working configurations (with accurate timing reports)
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Here are some configurations we observed to work as expected:

* GeForce GT 520 (Linux-x86; Debian default driver)
* GeForce GT 520 (Windows XP; NIVIDA driver 285.62)
* Nvidia GTX 650 (Linux-x86; NVIDIA driver 310.14)
* Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 (Linux-x86; NVIDIA driver 295.40)
* Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 (Windows XP SP3; NVIDIA driver)
* Toshiba Satellite Pro Laptop (Windows 7)
* Apple MacBook Pro 2013 (OS X 10.10; using alternative blocking!)
* Apple MacBook Pro 2013 (OS X 10.10; newer MacOS versions do NOT seem to work!)
* Dell XPS 15 9560 (Windows 10 Enterprise 22H2; Intel HD Graphics 630)
* Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspberry Pi OS, Wayland; slight reporting inaccuracy of 1ms on average)

**We recommend to always use the Expyriment test suite to check the
performance of your specific configuration!**
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