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	This idea dates back to early 2016 when a few FlightGear contributors were discussing a reddit review of FlightGear which highlighted that FlightGear's default graphics settings didn't seem to fit/match the graphics hardware available.		This idea dates back to early 2016 when a few FlightGear contributors were discussing a reddit review of FlightGear on the forum which highlighted that FlightGear's default graphics settings didn't seem to fit/match the graphics hardware available.

	FlightGear core deveoper Erik Hofman came up with the idea to preselect more appropriate default settings based on parsing various GL_* strings (in particular GL_VENDOR), i.e. detect the video card and based on the GL renderer name turn on [[ALS]] (or not), turn on water shader (or not), turn on the 3d city shader (or not), etc.		FlightGear core deveoper Erik Hofman came up with the idea to preselect more appropriate default settings based on parsing various GL_* strings (in particular GL_VENDOR), i.e. detect the video card and based on the GL renderer name turn on [[ALS]] (or not), turn on water shader (or not), turn on the 3d city shader (or not), etc.