>> How? This will not even break the videocard drivers.
Because, it is rumored it suports GL 1.4 only. No extensions. Check 1.4
specs and youll see
taht it cant be used for anything remotely modern. No VBO, no shader in
assembly, no GLSL shader, no render to texture support. And thats just
core. Not to mention hundred of extensions
like floating point textures, framebuffers, IHV specific stuff .
If you ever programed graphic aplications under OpenGL you will understand
why a lot of them will not work at all. And do I really want to wait for MS
to update a driver if ARB comitee promotes a extension to core or not ?
> OpenGL is conceptually a more high-level API then D3D
It aint. Id say they are at about the same level and functioanlity now. I
can Implement a OGL simulator using D3D, or I can implement a D3D simulator
using OGL in Linux for example.
But anyway Im not interested in more supositions. Im interested to know if
anyone has more information on the subject, and if MS made a clear statement
on their position on OpenGL and Vista, and the level of suport they intend
to provide.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: “Maxim S. Shatskih”
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [ntdev] Re:[ntdev] Re:Re: Re: Re:Referencing a RegKey Object
from handle
>> Is it true that OpenGL will be emulated through D3D in Vista with aero ?
>> Is
>> it true that Ms will no longer support Ogl ICDs ?
>
> Why not? Why forcing the hardware vendors to have 2 parallel driver DLLs?
> OpenGL is conceptually a more high-level API then D3D and thus can be
> based on
> D3D.
>
>> If yes , this change will break more programs then the whole bunch of
>> sorry
>> ass developers .
>
> How? This will not even break the videocard drivers. The ICDs will become
> unnecessary, replaced by MS’s OpenGL-over-D3D wrapper.
>
> Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
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