OpenGL or DirectX ?

elander · Post by **elander** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:20 pm

In your opinion what is the most stable, solid, less buggy, feature complete Irrlicht device ? The DirectX or OpenGL device.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:20 pm

stable: both
more features: directx
less buggy: directx

i use opengl, though. directx sucks in my opinion, i hate it.

Dances · Post by **Dances** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:07 am

Its best to support both and allow the user to choose, OGL runs on Linux and DX doesn't after all. Its not like supporting both is hard with Irrlicht in the first place -.-

FlyHigh · Post by **FlyHigh** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:26 am

I just set an option in the config file, with OGL as the default... Let them decide.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:02 pm

its just that some things in opengl look different (or sometimes very different) to directx, so that "let the user decide" is not always the best idea

(sure, there are workarounds to get them both the same, but im lazy

and opengl is cross platform, and opengl looks much nicer (code), and opengl looks still much nicer (graphics), and opengl .. oh, this is no directx-flame thread? sorry hehe

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disanti · Post by **disanti** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:17 am

OpenGL until hell freezes over!!!

Yeah, I hate DirectX and I hate Microsoft, and I hate Redmond... pretty much anything associated with Bill.

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Andreas · Post by **Andreas** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:31 am

I don't understand where all the hate comes from!

What did bill ever do to you? If you don't like his products, just don't use them...

oh, and to be ontopic again: i prefer OpenGL, but just because i'm using irrlicht under linux...

phrounz · Post by **phrounz** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:44 pm

Hem I noticed with my games that DirectX was giving a much better framerate than OpenGL (with an ATI card). So I use DirectX on Windows and OpenGL on Linux, but the best option is to set an option in the program you do, to let the user choose between the two devices.

cpprules · Post by **cpprules** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:28 pm

I used OpenGL for some time ( not in engine ), 'cause it was simple, but know that i can chose...
I chose DirectX 'cause it has better FPS.
And i always give users a choice bettwen X & GL.
I hated Bill for some time too, but then i realized how blind i was, just think of Visual Studio! All the Microsoft products are great.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:24 am

My app is merging irr and newton, got a vehicle hanging around.
I'am using irr 0.12. I've recently tried using Dx 9.0 and I'am very surprised about the result ; I've doubled the FPS on both a low end machine and my pro, middle end computer.

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:09 pm

I believe Irrlicht's OpenGL driver lags behind the DirectX one, especially on Linux.

Emil_halim · Post by **Emil_halim** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:35 pm

i think OpenGl is more friendly to use than directx, in some VGA Card
OpenGL is faster and in other card DirectX is the faster one , so it depends
on your VGA Card.

when you use Irrlicht you well only care of speed because Irrlicht has one
interface that intrenally works eithre with OpenGL or DirectX.

but if you decide to mix your Irrlicht code with OpneGL or DirectX ,to extend
some features that you want , so i think that working with OpenGL is more
nicer than DirectX,because with OpenGl you could insert any API Gl commend in your code but with DirectX because it consider as Com Object,
so first you have to obtain an interface of Dx9 or Dx8.

for me , i am starting a new project "BCXGL" which combine a static Irrlicht
library with OpenGL stuff, i will post the location of the site when it is ready.

Armen138 · Post by **Armen138** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:05 pm

Fred wrote:I believe Irrlicht's OpenGL driver lags behind the DirectX one, especially on Linux.

are you saying you get better framerates from directx on linux?
that would have to be by running the directx app through cedega, which then emulates the
directx instructions through opengl, how exactly can that be faster than using opengl directly?

Hernan · Post by **Hernan** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:55 am

DirectX 4TW!.
plus, i get better framerates with my ATI.

Spintz · Post by **Spintz** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:58 am

DirectX, not a fan of OpenGL. I can do a whole lot more with DirectX, a whole let quicker, ( and in my experience, DirectX is faster, not just with Irrlicht ).