Enduring_Warrior
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Doom3 anyone?Maybe some Quake 4. What about Call of Duty or any other game developed on the engines made by Id. Software. Well It looks like the upcoming windows is gonna make an attempt to take out OpenGL out of bussines for gaming purposes by making a more beautiful enviromento but lowering the prority of the OpenGL API.
Go to OPENGL to find out more.
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.
It would be technically straightforward to provide an OpenGL ICD within the full Aero experience without compromising the stability or the security of the operating system. Layering OpenGL over Direct3D is a policy decision more than a technical decision.
Note: this is only a first beta of Vista, so this decision is not set in stone. Write to your preferred software developer (Alias, UGS, Autodesk, Softimage, Dassault Systemes, PTC, SolidWorks, Maxon, TGS, Lightwave, Multigen, etc.), hardware developer and video card manufacturer (e.g. 3Dlabs, ATI, Intel, Matrox, NVIDIA, SIS HP, Dell, Leenovo) and tell them to bring this up with Microsoft. This will be the most effective action you can take. Don't be passive - send those emails and keep the topic in the foreground
Go to OPENGL to find out more.