openGL 2.0/2.5 ?!?

[Soulkeeper]

just wondering how much of a deal this will be say 1 or 2 years down the road if you wanna run the latest opengl games

 

[Matthias99]

Is OpenGL 2.0 even out yet? The docs on www.opengl.org only go up to 1.5, plus the extensions...

They really can't make cards for standards that aren't "official" yet. 😛

 

[Childs]

Do you have a link to the article that states they wont support OpenGL 2?

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Is OpenGL 2.0 even out yet? The docs on www.opengl.org only go up to 1.5, plus the extensions...

They really can't make cards for standards that aren't "official" yet. 😛

yeah i just took a look around on that site after posting this
i think it is finalized, just not being used or something...
also newegg.com says that the radeon x800xt has opengl 2.5 support

 

[LTC8K6]

I believe ATI has had "OpenGL2.0" support for a long time now. Whatever that means. 😀

 

[LTC8K6]

With SMARTSHADER? 2.0 and fully programmable floating point precision, the FireGL X1 is the first workstation graphics architecture to fully support Microsoft DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.0 in one single solution.

ATI press release in mid 2002.

 

[rbV5]

glview shows Forceware 6.1.7.2 to be 100% compliance to OpenGL v1.5 and 100% compliance OpenGL SL v2.0, Same as Catalyst IIRC. I think thats the latest.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I guess I've been slightly out of the loop lately. I knew that OpenGL 2.0 was in development, and I think yet to be ratified, but I didn't know that they were up to OpenGL 1.5 yet, I thought that 1.4 was the latest "official" standard. I'm guessing that the OpenGL 2.5 thing on NewEgg was a simple typo, and they meant OpenGL 1.5 support.