Interesting rant on OpenGL drivers from a dev at Valve.

[DanceswithUnix]

This is a Linux centric rant, but I think is indicative enough of what generally goes on behind the scenes to be of interest to Windows users too. It is certainly of interest to anyone looking for video hardware for a SteamOS box.

The chap has called the graphics vendors A, B and C but I suspect people will work out who they are pretty easily

http://richg42.blogspot.co.uk/2014/0...r-quality.html

[Agent]

link?

[DanceswithUnix]

link?

D'oh!

Thanks, now fixed

[Bluecube]

Nvidia, AMD, Intel? An interesting read even though I don't do any coding.

[scaryjim]

You know, I still daren't turn shiny water on in Neverwinter Nights for fear that AMDs driver will still bork nastily from whichever OGL call it makes...

Realistically, all three main vendors need an official open source OGL driver. Given the community support they'd likely get, they could probably save money on devs and still produce better drivers...

[kalniel]

You know, I still daren't turn shiny water on in Neverwinter Nights for fear that AMDs driver will still bork nastily from whichever OGL call it makes...

That is one nasty call though - we still have a sticky about it on the PW

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Here is a rant about OpenGL by a dev:

http://richg42.blogspot.co.uk/2014/0...ut-opengl.html
https://twitter.com/aras_p/status/465882281035313153

[DanceswithUnix]

Here is a rant about OpenGL by a dev:

http://richg42.blogspot.co.uk/2014/0...ut-opengl.html
https://twitter.com/aras_p/status/465882281035313153

Yeah, the first one is the same dev. It is a good rant, he obviously needed to get that off his chest. He likes the 6809 CPU, so must be a nice chap though

I'm sure he is right, OpenGL could do with a reboot with the full benefit of hindsight. Problem is how that could be made to happen. I suspect the only path to that happening would be an Android API, given that is what the vast majority of graphics capable CPUs made these days end up running.

Not sure what to make of that twitter thing, sounds more like a rant against Mantle non portability to me.