[Interest] Angle needed or not?...

[Ruth Ivimey-Cook]

Hi Sean

Thanks for this very clear explaination!

Ruth
> It should just be a case of installing a recent driver from the GPU vendor.
> AMD/nVidia users will do this as a matter of course if they want anything
> other than very low resolutions. These have supported modern versions of
> OpenGL for a long time. nVidia supports OpenGL 4.3 out of the box, I'm not
> sure about AMD as I don't have any cards at present.
>
> For Intel it's important to get a recent driver as their support for OpenGL
> has improved a lot over the last 12 months or so.
>
>> I would like to support OpenGL as an open alternative to the
>> now-apparently-moribund DirectX but it does seem DirectX still has
>> significant advantages.
> The only real advantage of DirectX over OpenGL on windows is that MS ensure
> that DirectX works via windows updates whereas for OpenGL you are reliant upon
> using drivers from the GPU vendors. DirectX and OpenGL have total feature
> parity in the core APIs afaik. After all they are talking to the same
> hardware.
>

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