OpenGL version request?

hansmbakker · Post by **hansmbakker** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:44 pm

hello

the irrlicht engine works great for me, but i have a question:

my nvidia driver supports opengl 1.5, but irrlicht uses 1.2

would it be faster if it was using 1.5? Will it be updated soon? (it uses directx 9, too, which is also the latest version of directx)

i know opengl is out already but it isn't used wide.

bal · Post by **bal** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:02 pm

OpenGL 1.5 hasn't the right license yet if I recall correctly.

Electron · Post by **Electron** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:20 pm

Newer versions of OpenGL have more features. The OpenGL 1.5 specification says nothing differently about speed (as far as I know I haven't actually read any OpenGL specification). Windows headers for OpenGL only go up to 1.1 or something anyway, so everything else has to be done with extensions. 1.5 may have soem features whose use would speed up Irrlicht, btu as far as core rendering there shoudl be no difference. Your graphics card is still running a 1.5 driver anyway, regardless of what features irrlicht uses.