opengl dll files

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Started by azaxaca January 10, 2002 04:19 PM

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January 10, 2002 04:19 PM

hello In my computer, i''ve got OPENGL32.DLL in one folder and opengl32.dll in another, and they have a size difference of almost 100kbytes. I was wondering why thre are two kinds of the same files. ..I still dont get the difference between c and c++...

..I still dont get the difference between c and c++...

feagle814

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January 10, 2002 07:15 PM

There''s a different OpenGL32.dll for every video chipset, as I understand it.

Null and Void

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January 10, 2002 07:19 PM

quote:Original post by feagle814
There''s a different OpenGL32.dll for every video chipset, as I understand it.

Nope. It''s an MCD (the first MCD that Windows ever had, from what I''ve read) to the real hardware connected OpenGL implementation written by the video card manufacturer. For example, NVidia uses something like "nvogl.dll" and it gets called from the MCD after it''s registered with Windows (by installing the drivers).

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