Le Mardi 24 Janvier 2006 19:06, Curtis L. Olson a écrit : > Comments: > > Yes, it's possible to buy hardware that has crappy opengl support. This > is true for any operating system. Many of the fringe players in the > video card market don't even have features on their card that could > support opengl well. Microsoft doesn't directly support opengl on all > hardware, and that also makes sense. OpenGL is in large part a driver > interface to the video hardware and MS can't be expected to write > drivers for everyone's hardware. > > So the moral of the story: If you think you might want to run an OpenGL > based program, carefully consider your video hardware when you purchase > your computer. Nvidia and ATI typically provide excellent opengl support > for windows. nvidia provides excellent opengl support of linux/freebsd. > > It pays to shop, know what hardware you are getting, and don't just > purchase something blindly. This is especially important if you are > purchasing a laptop, because you can't just drop in a new video card > later if you find out the built in video hardware has crappy opengl > support. > > There are too many important programs that use OpenGL for MS to even > consider tricky ways of killing OpenGL on their OS's. > > Curt.
There is another explanation part too : opengl compete with directx (which became from MS) so MS "force" users to use theirs product... -- Didier FABERT [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
