I am currently doing quite a lot of development work on my Asus S5200 laptop, which is a great computer that has everything I need, yet weights close to nothing and has great battery life (if you are looking for a super laptop, check it out!). I can program wherever I go. On the bus, in a restaurant, sitting in a tree, or while bungie jumping. However, it has one big problem, which is it has a graphics card (Intel Extreme Graphics 2 for Mobile) with little or no native support for any useful OpenGL extensions. I am currently working on an OpenGL based game using shadow maps, which requires support for the GL_ARB_depth_texture extension. Unfortunately my graphics card simply just does not support this extension, so how can I test if my code is working properly? So, I thought, maybe there are some OpenGL extension emulators out there, or some pure software only drivers for the newest OpenGL verions with all bells and whistles included? I do not mind if it is slow, in fact "slow" is almost a nice feature as I forces me to optimize, but it is important I can test new 3D techniques on my non-game-optimized 3D card. Not only through the above mentioned extension, but also other new features like shaders etc. Buying a bulky and heavy monster PC with the latest graphics card is just not very tempting, and I rarely work on a desktop these days... Any solutions to this one? Thanks in advance! :)

If you have an NVidia card, you might want to try NVemulate

Look at mesa3d.org. It's a software OpenGL implementation. Performance will suck, but that's OK if all you're doing is prototyping, and testing correctness.

Quote:Original post by evolutional
If you have an NVidia card, you might want to try NVemulate

Yeah, I found this one, but as mentioned it is an Intel based card... :(

"Yeah, I found this one, but as mentioned it is an Intel based card... :("

you mean nvidia right?

;)
greets tgar

Quote:Original post by Thaligar
"Yeah, I found this one, but as mentioned it is an Intel based card... :("

you mean nvidia right?

;)
greets tgar

Uhm, no, I really mean I have an Intel based card, so I cannot use an nvidia emulator. Sorry if I was not clear... :)