Are stencil shadows still usable in FTE?

[toneddu2000]

[frag.machine]

Are stencil shadows part of the OpenGL ? I always believed they were implemented by the game engines, not some kind of built in extension...

[toneddu2000]

yeah, probably you're right, my mistake.
Still no idea why it doesn't work on FTE

[Spike]

it needs a stencil buffer to be able to use stencil shadows.
this is generally the first thing that gets disabled when context creation would otherwise fail, as its often mutually exclusive with 16bit or 32bit depth buffers, depending on the driver.

[toneddu2000]

ah, I see, thanks Spike. I was trying to revive it to use parallel shadows because, as I pm'd you, unfortunately parallel lights shadowmapping keeps crashing randomly on FTE. Do you think there could be a workaround to use parallel lights (via ORTHOLIGHT) and avoid crashing?
Thanks