Neowin News Feed for: Opengl

Minecraft Java Edition is upgrading to Vulkan, but it's not great news for mods

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:54:01 +0000

Mojang warned that many popular mods will be affected by this change and wants to help mod authors port over their work. Read more...

Wine 10.9 released bringing EGL support for all graphic drivers and several bug fixes

David Uzondu — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:36:01 +0000

The latest Wine release, version 10.9, introduces EGL support across all graphics drivers, brings an updated vkd3d version, and includes several bug fixes. Read more...

We now know how and why Microsoft added the popular 3D Pipes screensaver to Windows

John Callaham — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:16:01 +0000

3D Pipes is still one of the most well-known screen savers of all time. It made its debut in Windows NT 3.5, and now, thanks to a blog post, we know how and why the screensaver was created. Read more...

VMware Workstation 17.0 Pro now live with Windows 11 guest OS and virtual TPM 2.0 support

Usama Jawad — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:54:01 +0000

Organizations, enthusiasts, and developers might be pleased to know that VMware Workstation Pro now officially supports Windows 11 via a virtual TPM 2.0 device present in version 17.0 of the product. Read more...

AMD 22.7.1 driver has major OpenGL optimizations and Windows 11 22H2 support

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:14:01 +0000

AMD has pushed out a major driver update for Radeon graphics users, bringing OpenGL performance improvements of up to 79%, AMD Noise Suppression for reducing background noise, and more. Read more...

AMD's Windows 11 22H2 WDDM 3.1 driver finally fixes Radeon's poor OpenGL performance

Sayan Sen — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 13:40:02 +0000

AMD's upcoming Windows 11 22H2 driver based on WDDM 3.1 will finally optimize the performance of OpenGL applications on Radeon GPUs, something which has been a problem for a very long time. Read more...

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Neowin Deals — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:00:02 +0000

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Valve's Dota 2 to drop support for 32-bit systems, DirectX 9, and OpenGL

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:06:01 +0000

Valve is planning to remove support for a number of aging configurations in Dota 2, including 32-bit systems, DirectX 9, and OpenGL. The changes will roll out in the coming months. Read more...

CS: GO could be getting a performance boost very soon on Linux using OpenGL

Sayan Sen — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:10:01 +0000

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive could soon be getting a healthy rise in performance on Linux running OpenGL as GL threading has been enabled via a patch on the next Mesa RadeonSI driver update. Read more...

Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac improves performance and adds macOS 11 Big Sur support

Abhay V — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:02:01 +0000

Parallels has released version 16 of its Parallels Desktop virtualization software for Macs. It brings major performance improvements, better support for OpenGL and DirectX 11 apps, and more. Read more...

Microsoft is working on OpenCL and OpenGL mapping layers for DirectX

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 22:04:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it's working with Collabora to create mapping layers for OpenCL and OpenGL in DirectX 12, with the goal of supporting more productivity and creative apps. Read more...

Cemu emulator 1.16.0c publicly released, brings Vulkan support

Sayan Sen — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 08:26:01 +0000

Vulkan has been added to Cemu with this new release version 1.16.0. The change is said to improve AMD Radeon and Intel graphics performance. The update also brings several other improvements. Read more...

OpenGL multi-threading boosts gaming performance on emulators

Sayan Sen — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 17:44:01 +0000

Thanks to OpenGL CPU multi-threading, a feature that was introduced two years ago, emulators appear to be running games much faster, often yielding significantly higher frames per second. Read more...

Khronos Group releases version 1.0 of Vulkan for Windows, the low level successor to OpenGL

Chris Dupres — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:10:01 +0000

The group behind the popular OpenGL standard has released the first version of their low-level graphics API Vulkan for mobile, console and PC graphics, based on AMD's Mantle. Read more...

Opera 20.0.1387.64

Razvan Serea — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:40:38 +0000

Opera is a Web browser that offers lots of features to let you take advantage of today's Web. Surf the Web at lightning speed. Protect yourself against Internet threats. Read more...

Rumor: Next DirectX API from Microsoft to allow for low-level access to hardware

John Callaham — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 11:57:38 +0000

New rumors claim that Microsoft is working on the next generation version of its DirectX graphics API and that it will allow for low-level access to hardware similar to AMD's Mantle. Read more...

Fraps 3.4.0

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:06:44 +0000

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks including: Benchmarking Software - See how many Frames Per Second... Read more...

Opera releases WebGL & Hardware accelerated browser preview

Steven Parker — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:18:39 +0000

More than 3 years on, Opera have released a public preview build of their browser, with a standards-based 3D canvas implementation using WebGL for Windows. In 2007 they had released a preview build showing an... Read more...

OpenGL Now Natively Supported in Windows Vista

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:51:06 +0000

The reason why OpenGL was not ever officially supported by Microsoft was because of Direct3D. Direct3D is Microsoft's driver model whichis intended to make OpenGL unnecessary. However many games and applications use OpenGL even today.... Read more...

Current Windows Vista Aero will Degrade OpenGL Performance

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:02:39 +0000

Microsoft's current plan for OpenGL on Windows Vista is to layer OpenGL over Direct3D in order to use OpenGL with a composited desktop to obtain the Aeroglass experience. If an OpenGL ICD is run -... Read more...

OpenGL Extension Viewer for Windows 2.13 Build 184

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:21:10 +0000

Many OpenGL extensions, as well as extensions to related APIs like GLU, GLX, and WGL have been defined by vendors and groups of vendors. The extension registry is maintained by SGI and contains specifications for... Read more...

OpenGL 2.0 launched with built-in shader language

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:19:12 +0000

Today Silicon Graphics and the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB) announced OpenGL 2.0 at the SIGGRAPH 2004 tradeshow. This news isn't just exciting for OpenGL 2.0 developers but also for users. Already OpenGL... Read more...

Sony could use OpenGL for PlayStation

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:04:43 +0000

The news site ITMedia has put two-and-two together and come up with the possibility that Sony's PlayStation 3 console will use the OpenGL API as a base for games development. Using a number of sources... Read more...

OpenGL Extension Viewer 2.09

Thu, 27 May 2004 22:33:03 +0000

Many OpenGL extensions, as well as extensions to related APIs like GLU, GLX, and WGL, have been defined by vendors and groups of vendors.The extension registry is maintained by SGI and contains specifications for all... Read more...

Take a future look at OpenGL 2.0

Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:09:08 +0000

Thanks Jadison for the email. Robert Richmond from XtremePcCentral writes a comprehensive article about the upcoming OpenGL 2.0 standard and what to expect from it."OpenGL has been a primary component of three dimensional rendering technology... Read more...

OpenGL 1.4 specification ratified and released

Marcel Klum — Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:48:58 +0000

Just in time for the 10th anniversary of OpenGL, the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB) announced the ratification and release of the OpenGL 1.4 specification. Developed to provide more realistic graphics with... Read more...

OpenGL on your mobile phone

Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:19:49 +0000

Oooh, imagine the possibilities... Silicon Graphics (SGI) and a group of other major players in the computer graphics industry have released the latest specification for the OpenGL application programming interface, OpenGL... Read more...

New ATI OpenGL Driver Released

Steven Parker — Fri, 31 May 2002 09:58:10 +0000

ATI has released a new OpenGL driver library to correct issues with Soldier Of Fortune 2: Double Helix. On levels where snow/fog effects are displayed the screen would display a blue tint. ... Read more...

Direct3D & OpenGL Compared

Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:23:06 +0000

This article written by Promit Roy outlines the structure, strengths and weaknesses of OpenGL and Direct 3D. For many years now, the question "Which should I use: Direct3D or OpenGL?" has elicited... Read more...

New OpenGL Demo!

Mon, 03 Dec 2001 06:35:00 +0000

Ripped from Warp2Search Hey, guys, there's a cool new GeForce3 demo written by Simon Green at NVIDIA. It's based on Jos Stam's stable fluid solver. One of the... Read more...