The application tells me it Can find an “OpenGL driver” for my 3D graphics hardware. What is an OpenGL driver and where can I find one?
Geometry Games software uses the standard cross-platform OpenGL graphics library, which in turn uses your computer’s graphics circuitry to draw the games. A piece of software called an OpenGL driver forms the bridge between OpenGL and the graphics hardware. On most home computers this all happens automatically and you never need to think about it. Computer manufacturers like HP and Dell pre-install a high-quality OpenGL driver on every machine they ship, so if you bought a standard PC, the geometry games should run fast and well. If, however, you installed (or re-installed) Windows XP yourself, then please read on… Microsoft Windows XP comes with an OpenGL driver that ignores your computer’s good, fast graphics processor and instead draws the games using “software rendering”, which can be 200 times slower, too slow to be usable. If you installed Windows XP from a distribution disk or downloaded a driver from Microsoft Update, you got Microsoft’s crummy driver. To correct the problem, y
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