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What is the state of OpenGL on Windows Vista?

April 26, 2017OpenGL State Windows Vista

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What is the state of OpenGL on Windows Vista?

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Continue OpenGL support > Important component of the Windows platform, particularly for high-end workstation applications In-box hardware accelerated version of OpenGL > Uses WGF 1.0 as common graphics pipeline > Upgraded API support compared to XP > OpenGL 1.4 Continue to support OpenGL ICDs > Can be shipped by OEMs > New ICDs required for LDDM > Old XP ICDs work with XP driver model in Longhorn Source Quote:…Currently, the implication of using the IHV-supplied OpenGL driver is that the Aeroglass desktop compositor will be switched off for the OpenGL application going through an OpenGL ICD. This means that the borders of the application window will be opaque instead of (potentially) transparently composited with underlying windows… Quote:…Other running apps are unaffected. – Randi Rost, 3DLabs. The information above was provided by msn12b and Krohm respectively.