I installed Version 3 on P4 Mini desk IBM 3.2Ghz… Windows XP Pro SP2 and Intel Extreme graphics 2…Īll was fine until ( I the ignorant ) clicked on the large horizontal arrow in the “Render test” option. I’ll appreciate very much if you try to advise me on my problem with OpenGL Extension viewer. It’s only used when no real OpenGL driver is installed on a system. “OpenGL Generic” is Microsoft’s generic software emulation driver. If it only shows “GDI Generic” then something is wrong with your driver installation. It should show two options, 1) “GDI Generic” and 2) the name of your video card and/or driver. This menu lists the OpenGL driver(s) installed on your machine. The last part you should check out is the “Renderer” menu option. Beware, these extensions are turned off for a reason – use them at your own risk! This tab lists experimental OpenGL extensions that are turned off by default. The final tab worth mentioning is the Registry tab: Note: for benchmarking, be sure to click the “benchmark” box near the bottom of the dialog: This is useful if you want to check performance of your card or you suspect a hardware malfunction. You can use the Test tab to run actual OpenGL rendering tests and benchmarks. “Report” allows you to print out some of the pertinent information you’ve seen in the other tabs. “Pixel formats” shows the available pixel formats you can choose when programming with OpenGL. “Display Modes” lists all the different video modes your card supports. The next three tabs are pretty self-explanatory. The prefixes of each extension tell you which company originally created it: The “extensions” tab gives you a list of extensions supported by your driver along with capabilities and limitations of your video card. See one of my previous articles: Certain Notebook ATI Video Card Drivers Not Supporting OpenGL 2.0. However, for third-party drivers, it’s definitely possible. In fact, I don’t see any reason it would happen. For drivers written by ATI and Nvidia, this would be very unlikely. It’s possible to have “gaps” in your OpenGL support where the driver doesn’t implement all the functions of one version but does implement everything in a higher version. Whichever version you found was greatest is the actual OpenGL version installed on your machine. Look for the highest version number with “100%” support that also has “100%” marked for all versions prior to it. For each version it shows how many functions are supported by your card’s driver. The first tab shows you some system information and a list of all OpenGL versions. After this auto-detect cycle is complete, you’ll see a dialog similar to the one below: Don’t worry, this is completely normal – it will stop after about 15 seconds. When you run the program your screen may do some weird things (go blank, flash, etc.). Not only will it give you information on what OpenGL version you’re running, it can also give you information on the generic software emulation driver. I’ve used this program forever on many different cards / configurations and it’s never failed. Start by downloading an application called GL View by Realtech VR. Have you ever needed to check which OpenGL version you’re running? Ever need to see which OpenGL extensions are supported by your card and/or video driver? Well, look no further! This post has the answers along with how to get some very useful information about your video driver.
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