| bart@neeneenee.de 2005-08-09, 7:18 am |
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Call to Action: Current plan for Windows Vista Aero will degrade OpenGL
performance. Act Now to keep OpenGL a first class API under Windows
Microsoft's current plan for OpenGL on Windows Vista is to layer OpenGL
over Direct3D in order to use OpenGL with a composited desktop to
obtain the Aero experience. If an OpenGL ICD is run - the desktop
compositor will switch off - significantly degrading the user
experience. In practice this means for OpenGL under Aeroglass:
* OpenGL performance will be significantly reduced - perhaps as
much as 50%
* OpenGL on Windows will be fixed at a vanilla version of OpenGL
1.4
* No extensions will be possible to expose future hardware
innovations
http://www.opengl.org/
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