dAbReAkA Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 the ati catalyst RC1 drivers currently have no opengl support which can even be seen in the release notes.. anyone know when to expect such support? any news from ati on the catalyst vista drivers about that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boooggy Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 maybe when m$ will release final vista...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooky Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 MS hasn't supported OpenGL in its past products and I don't think you will see it in Vista either. It will probably be up to the card manufacturer to provide some sort of opengl driver/support. Right now the ATI beta drivers don't support opengl and might not in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share Posted September 25, 2006 Note: The following ATI features are not supported in the Catalyst® Vista RC1 driver for the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system:· CrossFire™· Catalyst® Control Center Video aspect page· OpenGLfrom the release notesthey have no opengl and crossfire support and they say that on the release notes.. having no crossfire support till vista final will kill them.. they will 100% implement that feature.. IMO, they will implement opengl support too.. let's hope that happens soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakatomi2010 Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 At the time of writing the RC1 drivers ATi didn't have the code from Microsoft to properly implement OpenGL. My understanding is that OpenGL has to go through DirectX to get used properly, and that means that it's entirely up to the video card manufacturers to properly implement OpenGL...As for Crossfire support, considering it's ATi's version of SLi I expect it to be enabled within the next release of their drivers, as I also expect OpenGL to be released at the same time.I also suspect the RC2 drivers will be released by the end of the week...I am no grounds for making that guess beyond that ATi was pretty quick to release their RC1 drivers, so I figure RC2 should be about as quick.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 (edited) I doubt that not having Crossfire in their driver set until RTM will "kill" them, and considering that ATI's FireGL product is going to run on Vista, I think it will be safe to expect OpenGL support for ATI products in Vista at launch. Edited October 12, 2006 by cluberti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted October 12, 2006 Author Share Posted October 12, 2006 there are several months till the massive release.. they definitely need opengl and crossfire support around january - which they will probably have..will a user buy an OS under which he cant use both his video cards? why did he pay for both? why did he pay so much for the OS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 catalyst for RTM released.. FFS, still no opengl support!!! sux!no way i can use vista as a main OS soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stead Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 hrmm i thought nvida had opengl support for ages in their drivers? was expecting the new ati ones to have it although saying that, these drivers are much better, games seem to run a lot smoother, well, i've only tried halo but i can finally run it with the same settings i did in xp and now its smooth before i had to turn down the resolution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 well, at least there are improvements.. but CS1.6 runs horribly in direct3d - there's no way to be stable at 100fps.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooky Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Theres a beta RTM driver now available from ATI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 (edited) Spooky, read up.. Edited November 4, 2006 by dAbReAkA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooky Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Well.....I guess i will add blindness to the list of my endearing qualities Spooky, read up.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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