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You mean that the lines you mentioned work like the vertex streaming hack does?

(11-08-2013, 10:59 PM)Sonicadvance1 Wrote: [ -> ]AMD GPUs don't need the vertex streaming hack; They already have an OpenGL extension that does the hack in a correct way. This extension is called GL_AMD_pinned_memory.
OpenGL 4.4 introduces an extension called GL_ARB_buffer_storage which does the same thing but in a standard way. This will replace the vertex streaming hack on Nvidia GPUs that support the extension, and it will also be used on any other GPU that expose the extension.
Not sure when buffer_storage will be implemented since I don't own a Nvidia GPU, and AMD has yet to release a driver for OpenGL 4.4

Does the latest revision use the 4.4 OpenGL extension on Nvidia GPUs or still the mentioned loophole? Or are you waiting for AMD to support it too? Which might take a while considering 4.3 took them about 1 year (OpenGL 4.3 release 2012-08-06, AMD OpenGL 4.3 Beta Driver release 2013-07-23).

I only have an AMD GPU, so I can't implement the extension on my end while they haven't released a OpenGL 4.4 driver. The latest revisions do not have support for the extension yet. Waiting on someone with an Nvidia GPU to implement it at this point.

Would it actually make any difference whether you use a hack or an official extension?

We don't know, since AMD hasn't released a driver yet. Nobody knows, that for sure, Unless AMD were to give the dolphin devs some kind of OpenGL 4.4 test driver.