All that stuff about downgraded OpenGL support is pretty much FUD. It'll all work fine if you replace the in-box video drivers.
On 10/30/06, Tom Wilson
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Okay... let's not get into an OGL vs D3D war. This never ends well.BTW: for those of you curious (or worried) about MS's support for OGL, the latest info I've found states that MS will support 3 forms of OGL access.1. For video card vendors that don't provide an OpenGL driver (most of them, I think), MS will provide an accelerated OpenGL 1.4 compatible driver that maps the calls to D3D calls. This probably won't be as fast as native GL, but it will work with every 3D video card that has D3D support.2. Vendors can choose to implement an OpenGL driver that takes over the video subsystem. When these apps are running, the pretty transparent Vista interface will be partially disabled.3. Vendors can use a new feature that displays the OpenGL frame buffer on a Direct 3D surface. This lets the Aero interface stay up and running, giving us the transparent window borders, and also allows the OpenGL stuff to work at native speed.Rumor has it that nVidia should work with at least mode 2, if not mod 3. ATI support (so far) seems to be lacking. ATI does not yet have a new set of beta drivers out (the latest was for RC1), and may not have a new set out until Vista goes final.I have a set of MSDN discs on the way, and as soon as I get my Vista final DVD, I'll get it installed on the notebook (ATI) and the desktop (nVidia) and give you a report.
On 10/30/06, Michael Cortez <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:> Using OpenGL instead of DirectX would be like using Java instead of
> C#... i.e. only do so if you like punishment.
>
Or if your trying to maintain the cross platform support that
libsecondlife already has :-S
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