__/ [ [H]omer ] on Tuesday 22 August 2006 23:03 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33838
>>
>> The Playstation 3 is a Linux box with capabilities beyond gaming.
>
> Well the future of OpenGL on PCs might be in question, thanks to Fista,
> but Linux gaming looks set to take over.
Yes, I agree. Oliver linked to the following video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1870618103859210055&q=killzone
So it's argued to be real-time rendering (or an emulation of it rather).
And, for what it's worth, I'll add a reference to back your statement.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista
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| In the current implementation (as of 2005-09-22) of the OpenGL
| graphics library in Windows Vista - a soon to be released new version
| of the Microsoft Windows operating system, OpenGL is not a stand
| alone library. Instead it functions as a wrapper around DirectX, and
| is frozen to the vanilla version of OpenGL 1.4.
|
| This means that OpenGL applications in Windows Vista will, most
| likely, suffer from severe performance loss, that, when an OpenGL driver
| is loaded, the Windows operating system will have odd behaviours and
| that future versions of OpenGL will not affect the Windows Vista
| platform. This would result in less developers actively supporting
| OpenGL, and as a result, less applications written which are easy to
| port to another platform or easy to maintain.
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