{"author_name":"HolyBlackCat","cat":"LD #31","comments":[{"author_name":"indigo","time":"December 3, 2014 10:19 am","epoch":1417619940,"text":"Well, I’m can’t speak for everybody, but I have a proper, dedicated GPU, my PC is not antique, and yet this is my OpenGL version string:
\n > OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.1.3
\n I guess the driver situation is always worse on Linux than under Windows, but still!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 3, 2014 11:24 am","epoch":1417623840,"text":"GL3 is more common. GL2 is still around.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"agmcleod","time":"December 3, 2014 11:55 am","epoch":1417625700,"text":"I would definitely only use opengl 3, unless you require to use 4 for something now. If you want to leverage opengl4 in the future, you can always update it later.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"mildmojo","time":"December 3, 2014 12:03 pm","epoch":1417626180,"text":"I was going to point to the Steam hardware survey, too.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"HolyBlackCat","time":"December 3, 2014 12:41 pm","epoch":1417628460,"text":"Thanks for your answers, everyone. I think, I’ll keep 4.3, at least now. When everything will be ready, I’ll probably port it to 3.3.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1417619460,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"25526","p_author":"HolyBlackCat","p_authorkey":"39241","p_urlkey":"60943","p_title":"Modern OpenGL","p_cat":"LD #31","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1417619460","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"6","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"39241","us_name":"HolyBlackCat","us_username":"\/author\/holyblackcat\/","event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"text":"

Hello everyone.<\/p>\n

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At previous LD many people were complaining about OpenGL 4.3 that was required to play my game; they was asking for version for lower OpenGL, like 3.3.<\/p>\n

Well, I didn’t used fancy shaders that rely on modern features, so I quickly ported it to 3.3. But I may use modern features in future projects.<\/p>\n

I thought 4.3 runs on almost every card with modern drivers, except integrated Intel ones.<\/p>\n

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So, I’m wondering:<\/p>\n

Is OpenGL 4.3 hardware actually not that common as I think?<\/p>\n

Or some guys are just too lazy to update their drivers? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>","time":"December 3rd, 2014 10:11 am","title":"Modern OpenGL"}