The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X. Since the mid 90s, ...

Sure. For one thing, DirectX 9 supports a hell of a lot more than OpenGL does. Last time i checked OpenGL was just about Graphics. DirectX 9 covers things lke handling input, sound and graphics. Not ...

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...

Coinciding with SIGGRAPH 2011, the Khronos Group has released OpenGL 4.2, outlined exciting changes for WebCL, and detailed a new sensor processing API called StreamInput. OpenGL 4.2, which comes ...

It is being reported that Valve has found OpenGL to be faster than DirectX, but the real conclusion is slightly more complicated. Valve is well known for its fast PC-based graphics and if anyone knows ...

Collabora has announced that it has partnered with Microsoft DirectX engineers to build OpenCL and OpenGL mapping layers, in order to bring OpenCL 1.2 and OpenGL 3.3 support to all Windows and DirectX ...

Hey there arsians. I program a bit in DirectX making some small trivial games and I was wondering about the differences between DirectX and OpenGL graphics hardware, which leads me to my questions: ...

It seems as I continue my journey into M.E. development, I cannot devote 100% attention if I were to implement OpenGL and DirectX at the same time. Therefore, I must make a choice on which to focus.

Graphics chip maker ATI Technologies has released HLSL2GLSL, an open source application designed to help programmers convert graphics code optimized for Windows’ DirectX 9 Application Programming ...

A couple of weeks ago, we had the pleasure of interviewing id Software’s Tiago Sousa and Axel Gneiting. And as you may have guessed, we asked the team about the advantages of OpenGL over DX11 (and ...

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 ...

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