When we spoke of Steam for Linux yesterday, many of our readers were wondering just how competitive OpenGL is these days when compared against Direct3D. This can be quite the tricky question as, when ...

Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2, Team ...

At Siggraph 2014, the Khronos Group has announced both OpenGL 4.5 and, more excitingly, the Next Generation OpenGL Initiative. OpenGL 4.5, except for some new Direct3D 11 emulation features for easier ...

In order to run the new macOS Mojave, Macs must have graphics hardware capable of supporting Metal, Apple's modern low-level, low-overhead software that provides access to graphics processing.

The Asahi Linux project for Apple Silicon Macs has just become conformant to OpenGL 4.6 and OpenGL ES 3.2, surpassing Apple's current support. Apple moved away from OpenGL support after it began to ...

If each time you drove your car, you first had to give detailed instructions to the starter motor, transmission and every other piece of hardware, all but the most determined drivers would stay home.

OpenGL, formally known as the Open Graphics Library, allows applications like Minecraft to take full advantage of the GPU (Graphics processing unit) on a machine. Minecraft is just one of the ...

Starting with the new specification, OpenGL ES 3.2 aims to bring another step forward in mobile graphics capabilities and quality by absorbing Google’s Android Extension Pack (AEP) functionality into ...

PC hardware companies work in funny ways sometimes. When AMD had a new driver ready that added extra features with arguably niche appeal, like its AMD Link in-home streaming tech, it was very excited ...

How difficult is OpenGL? How difficult can it be if you can build a basic renderer in 500 lines of code? That’s what [Dmitry] did as part of a series of tiny applications. The renderer is part of a ...

Sometimes, while trying to open an app using Remote Desktop from a different Windows 11/10 system, the following error message appears – Sorry, the version of ...

While Minecraft graphics are quite basic, they do require OpenGL graphics API to load chunks and other graphical components like shadows and lighting. This graphics API stands for 'Open Graphics ...