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OLS: Open source graphics driversOLS: Open source graphics driversPosted Jul 20, 2006 11:59 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)In reply to: OLS: Open source graphics drivers by drag Parent article: OLS: Open source graphics drivers
Umm, DirectX is generally better because someone actually tests the drivers and bundles them up in an easy to install way. Microsoft doesn't write them, that would be silly. If someone got all the OpenGL drivers into an easily installable package, tested every driver thoroughly (for backward compatability if nothing else) and proactively encouraged the vendors to fix bugs, the support would be steller.
I know that OpenGL support improved markedly when quake needed it, can't say I've actually used Windows much since then so I'm not sure what happened since.
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OLS: Open source graphics drivers Posted Jul 21, 2006 5:58 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Ya. I don't know. The only thing that matters is that it works. OpenGL and SDL are held in higher esteeme by most game makers.. Thats probably why all the major engines that run on Direct3D in Windows also have a option to render themselves on OpenGL. More 'indie' game makers seem to choose SDL over DirectX, or at least that is the impression that I get.
Not trying to belabor the point of the importance of games, but here is a whole army of game makers out there making things for linux. Check out Happypenguin.com some time. They are getting quite prolific. I think that they are due for more love or at least attention buy distros.
Or put it in the other way look at the Wine application database.
People trying to games to work under Wine have created 1180 entries. The next highest group of applications are 'multimedia' with only 397 entries. 17 out of the top 25 applications are games. And all of those except one (the poker game) is 3D.
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