OpenGL 3.0 canceled?

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming OpenGL

Started by ajm113 August 24, 2008 01:55 AM

26 comments, last by Yann L 15 years, 8 months ago

MARS_999

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August 25, 2008 06:56 PM

glSDK
Rob Barris is on board as is Korval.

rbarris

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August 25, 2008 07:35 PM

I'm admittedly lurking at this point til they have a shell up and running. I would like to write up some usage patterns for MapBufferRange and PBO/VBO.

scratt

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August 25, 2008 08:45 PM

Quote:Original post by MARS_999
glSDK
Rob Barris is on board as is Korval.

Let me know if I can help in any way..

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_mark_

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August 26, 2008 08:06 AM

Quote:Original post by stimarco
The games industry is acting like OpenGL is *just* for them. This is not the case and it's unfair on the other markets to throw a major tantrum just because Santa didn't bring what you asked for. Life is full of disappointments; deal with it.

OOI, what are the improvements in OpenGL 3 that are targetted at non-games use?

I mean, I've heard a lot of talk about problems in OpenGL 3 - if the counter-argument is that OpenGL is targetted at more than just games, there must be some super new features that they were spending their efforts on instead, right?

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GamerSg

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August 27, 2008 12:45 AM

Quote:Original post by stimarco
I think it's clear that pragmatic issues forced the ARB's hand here. I'm guessing that simply dumping 2.x and starting afresh was unfeasible as it would require companies like ATI, NVidia and Intel to maintain both 2.x and 3.x drivers. As OpenGL is a niche API, this makes little sense: ATI, NVidia and Intel make their money from consumer graphics products, which means DirectX gets the bulk of the attention. Making OpenGL even harder to support over the near-term was never going to go down well with the IHVs.

Just out of curiosity, when a IHV releases new hardware, do they not have to implement drivers for DX 7/8/9/10? Else older games coded in DX7 will not work on newer hardware.

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Hodgman

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August 27, 2008 01:28 AM

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gold

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August 27, 2008 02:20 AM

Quote:Original post by GamerSg
Just out of curiosity, when a IHV releases new hardware, do they not have to implement drivers for DX 7/8/9/10? Else older games coded in DX7 will not work on newer hardware.

Microsoft provides a shim which layers older versions on the more recent, so IHVs don't have to support them all. Older titles run fast enough when emulated on newer hardware.