[gameprogrammer] Re: OpenGL reality check.

Hi,

Bob Pendleton schrieb: 
This year, only a couple were able to
get OpenGL working on their computers.
So they want to program, but are not able to install recent drivers?
I have an old IBM ThinkPad here with a 1.5GHz Celeron and integrated graphics: I can play Quake2 (linux & windows) without problems...


default MS drivers are terrible, when they work at all. 
The MS driver is a software renderer with OpenGL 1.1 support!

o Is OpenGL still a viable graphics API for use on Windows? 
Yes!

o Is there an open source, C/C++, 3D graphics API that works on top of
OpenGL on the rest of the world and DirectX on Windows?
I saw a OpenGL & D3D Wrapper some time ago. It was once the IOTD at flipcode, but their archives are down. This was exactly what you need ;-)
Damn, I can not remember the name...


o Can SDL stay a viable library if OpenGL support on Windows is really
as bad as it looks?
I use SDL and OpenGL in many different projects and I have never had any problems.

Bye


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