OpenGL
Found this headline on opengl.org today:
Call to Action: Current plan for Windows Vista Aero will degrade OpenGL performance. Act Now to keep OpenGL a first class API under Windows
The link is to a discussion board. It talks about the new Windows only supporting OpenGL 1.4 (fixed, so no plans to extend) and provides this support through a translation of OpenGL calls to DirectX, severely degrading the performance of any windowed OpenGL apps. This is because their new fancy desktop (Aeroglass) is completely rendered with DirectX and therefore cannot support an OpenGL rendering context.
Bloody Microsoft!
Call to Action: Current plan for Windows Vista Aero will degrade OpenGL performance. Act Now to keep OpenGL a first class API under Windows
The link is to a discussion board. It talks about the new Windows only supporting OpenGL 1.4 (fixed, so no plans to extend) and provides this support through a translation of OpenGL calls to DirectX, severely degrading the performance of any windowed OpenGL apps. This is because their new fancy desktop (Aeroglass) is completely rendered with DirectX and therefore cannot support an OpenGL rendering context.
Bloody Microsoft!