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.