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Windows Vista will layer OpenGL over D3D
toadlife:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---If you continue to use Windows, you continue to be at their mercy. You won't see me complaining, because OpenGL works just fine on all my computers. Anybody brave enough to use DirectX deserves to be shafted like this.
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I use Windows, and don't feel like I am at their mercy. You also won't see me complaining because unlike some others I realize that this whole story is nothing but FUD.
Orethrius:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---I use Windows, and don't feel like I am at their mercy. You also won't see me complaining because unlike some others I realize that this whole story is nothing but FUD.
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Why are you defending D3D when it's not done anything that OpenGL has done a hundred times prior?
solo:
FUD? No. Exaggerated? Yes.
The layering of OpenGL ontop of D3D will be implemented in Microsoft's OpenGL library, which is not used when you install NVIDIA or API drivers. In fact, this is true on Linux too, Linux comes with MesaGL, an unaccelerated GL which is used until NVIDIA's or ATI's installers replace the libgl.so[.1] links with links to their own GL libs.
Because of this, we may even see Nvidia or ATI find a better solution instead of layering D3D to achieve the same effects. They've been known to actively react to stuff like this.
In the meantime though, I am all secure--I'll probably never run Windows Vista on my boxen.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: Orethrius ---Why are you defending D3D when it's not done anything that OpenGL has done a hundred times prior?
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I'm not defending Direct3D, just calling BS when I see it. OpenGL is better than Direct3D. Because of that developers will continue to use it, and if Microsoft tries to kill it using their OS monopoly, they will be sued by the government (or another company) and they will lose.
How would you like it if I said..."By using linux you are at Linus Torvaldus' mercy? Sounds kidn silly doesn't it? I am not at anyones mercy...there are *plenty* of options in the computing world, and my life would go on just fine if Microsoft suddenly disappeared.
skyman8081:
This only REALLY only effects people running on an Intel i810 graphics chip.
And nothing this side of 1999 runs on those anyway...
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