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Started by Hobbes182 Jan 6, 2001 at 11:08 PM 7 replies 400+ views

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Hobbes182

Jan 6, 2001 at 11:08 PM

Does anyone know if Microsoft''s X-Box supports/will support Open GL ?

Gorg

Jan 6, 2001 at 11:11 PM

Yes it will. Nvidia will provide it.

Elixer

Jan 6, 2001 at 11:36 PM

You sure about that? I know the NV20 can do openGL just fine, but I thought I read that MS only wanted DX stuff for the xbox... and since MS has written the kernel, I am pretty sure they won''t have a opengl32.dll (or whatever)

AFAIK, they require DX8 for Xbox.

zedzeek

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zedzeek

Jan 7, 2001 at 1:15 AM

nvidia have said they will do opengl drivers for the xbox which begs a question.
what will ms do if the xbox gives more performance/features using opengl than there own d3d?

http://members.xoom.com/myBollux

Khrob

Jan 7, 2001 at 8:12 AM

Michael Abrash has stated that there WILL be OpenGL support.

fshana

Jan 7, 2001 at 9:33 AM

This may shed some light on how to get the SDK. It''s not going to be made available to just anyone, there''s a review process and you''ll need a demo reel of some kind to even get in the door.

http://www.dailyradar.com/xboxmag/newissue2/oxm/makeyourgames.html

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fshana

Jan 7, 2001 at 9:33 AM

Protozone

Jan 7, 2001 at 9:34 AM

Zedzeek... why would Microsoft need do anything if the OpenGL implementation on X-Box is better than the DX implementation?
They''re both on the X-Box and what most people don''t tend to realize is that MS are not dead-set against OpenGL. If they were, they wouldn''t provide any GL tutorials on MSDN.

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