Re: [oglbase-discuss] GL_RENDERER strings

[Michael Vance]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:37:53AM -0700, Thomas Roell wrote:

> those HW related things, there really should be a way for an
> application to figure out, what core-API functions and what extensions
> are done in SW only, vs. which ones can use HW support. Maybe that is

This has been discussed ad nauseum, and there is no acceptable way to
implement such things. What defines "hardware accelerated"? OpenGL is
designed the way it is for a reason.

You should see the spaghetti Direct3D code I sometimes get with all
these D3D cap bits and conditional statements based on
chipsets... aigh, what a mess.

m.

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