A friend of mine told me that Windows XP does not support OpenGL in ANY WAY. Is that true? Please somebody answer me with proofs Shit! I don''t want to code on D3D again!!!!! DAMMIT!!! Cristián Ramírez (gameovercl) ICQ #38991565 Viña del Mar CHILE

Opengl is available on WinXP.

Winxp is very similar to win2000... so everything that works on win2000 will work on winxp.

A more interesting question is what made your friend tell you that ? Once again: no it''s not true, there''s too many OpenGL programs for Microsoft to drop it.

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Windows XP is NOT designed for gamers ... it is designed to allow microsoft to quit paying 2 OS development groups to maintain two semi-compatible operating systems ...

What this means for you is:

A) you get the benifits of NT based code (memory hog, better performance, better stability, support for multiple proceesors)

B) you get the ability to run workstation software made for NT ... and run it right.

C) you may or may not (i''ve heard conflicting views on this) get ANY 16 bit support ... which would mean no win 3.1 programs work, no DOS programs work, and some of the early win95 programs (using thunks) may not work. I''ve heard they have a compatiblity mode ... but I know the code base is 2000 ... and 2000 cannot run DOS or other 16 bit code at ALL ...

D) As for OpenGL ... since NT was made for professionals ... it has ALWAYS had OpenGL support ... even before D3D was invented (NT 3.5 anyone) ... XP (just like 2000) will has support for many professional OpenGL rendering cards that do not run under Win9x ...

E) Finally the development systems and client systems will run the same OS ... anyone here remember developing on NT 4 boxes with Visaul Studio and running on Win95 OSR 2 ... for DirectX

Thanks for info dark wing ... i knew i''d heard microsoft SAY that is had done that ... but since no NT OS before had succesfully done so (since actually it would be impossible to let the chip run in 16 bit mode and still have a preemptive OS) ... glad to hear they did it right this time (so does this mean that they FAKE (emulate) 16 bit mode ... they must translate 16 bit code to 32 bit code and then feed it to processor ... just like running x86 code on an Alpha ... but i guess since processors are SOOO fast no compared to anything that 16 bit code was ever meant to use it would be possible no problem ...(people quick writing ANY 16 bit code by the time the PII had come out ... i''d say Pentium MMX 233 was about the last processor any DOS game ever needed) ...

So you say it has SB16 support in DOS ... so it''s an abstract layer ??? so it would then work on ALL windows sound cards ... they just intercept and translate the SB16 interupts into Direct Sound probably???