[DC LoCo] Valve talks Steam client for Linux - SlashGear

Matthew Gallagher mattva01 at gmail.com
Wed May 2 15:58:36 UTC 2012


While that may be true, most of the time the opengl renderer is only
supported after porting to OSX, such as in Valve and Blizzard's case
and is generally inferior in feature set to the DirectX engine (for
example for a long time the OpenGL renderer in World of Warcraft did
not support full screen effects or some water shaders) and in the
other cases is supported due to the generic engine used (Infinity
Ward Engine, Unreal Engine 3, and iD Tech 4/5). In fact, the
technology used can be boiled down to 4 companies
(Activision-Blizzard, Valve, Bethesda Softworks(which owns iD), and
Epic Megagames)
The only game I've recently seen that pushed OpenGL  desktop features
was Rage, and that had severe driver issues on it's launch date.
I  this is changing, but as of now I do think most games focus on
DirectX support before working on a OpenGL build.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Matthew Gallagher <mattva01 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Well sure, but notice that nearly all game engines and GPU
>> manufacturers focus their marketing on support for new directX shader
>> features, rather then their equivalent in OpenGL. At this point it's
>> an image issue rather then a performance issue.
>>
>
> There are still a lot of game developers who use OpenGL.
>
> Rage by Id Software and Bethesda Softworks and the Call of Duty franchise
> all use OpenGL. Some games which default to D3D also have optional OpenGL
> renderers. Many of these are all of the Source Engine games by Valve, World
> of Warcraft, the Unreal Tournament franchise, Brink, and if I remember right
> also Duke Nukem Forever.
>
>
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>
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