+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted January 12, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted January 12, 2010 Apple Progressing Toward Full Support for OpenGL 3.0 in Mac OS X 10.6.3 Hardmac today points to a netkas.org posting revealing that Apple has built nearly all of the required support for OpenGL 3.0 into Mac OS X 10.6.3, with 22 out of 23 extensions now supported. Most of the associated OpenGL 3.0-specific functions, however, are reportedly not yet supported. The public release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 supports only 15 of the 23 OpenGL 3.0 extensions, suggesting that Apple is moving rapidly toward full support for OpenGL 3.0, which would offer increased graphics performance for the company's Mac computers. The graphics cards used in current Mac models already support OpenGL 3.0, which was released in July 2008, but the required software support in Snow Leopard to take advantage of the specification has not yet appeared. News source: Mac Rumors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Cool news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted January 12, 2010 Veteran Share Posted January 12, 2010 Nice, the card in my mac sucks but having a standard API implementation is very good. Edit: The card in my mac should already support OpenGL 3, my PC has an older card and it fully supports it. That's a nice thing with how flexible cards are becoming today, a driver update can add support for brand new GFX API's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollos84 Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Go Apple! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Observer Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 so maybe we can see some more games under Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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