Vista and OpenGL - Pro apps left out in the cold?

pc_guy · January 29th, 2007

Been looking at some performance comparisons between XP and Vista, most are about equal, gaming, encoding, etc...

The most disturbing are SPECviewperf tests which go through a few pro apps, Maya, 3d Max, Catia, solidWorks, which use OpenGL. They are much lower, 85-98% lower compared to XP! 98%!!!

Has anyone hear of any OpenGL drivers that will make OGL work natively with Vista? I remember reading something about nVidia working on beta drivers, plus I remember that MS said the OGL library was going to be included with VIsta.

Panda Man · January 29th, 2007

I'd say in about 2-3 month's drivers will be up to par with vista. This is just the price you pay to have the latest and (not-so)-greatest :P

wtcnbrwndo4u · January 29th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Panda Man

I'd say in about 2-3 month's drivers will be up to par with vista. This is just the price you pay to have the latest and (not-so)-greatest :P

Yup. Sounds about right. Lots of basic drivers are up and running, but not all the other stuff.

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pc_guy Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Inside an igloo, Canada Posts: 313	Vista and OpenGL - Pro apps left out in the cold? Been looking at some performance comparisons between XP and Vista, most are about equal, gaming, encoding, etc... The most disturbing are SPECviewperf tests which go through a few pro apps, Maya, 3d Max, Catia, solidWorks, which use OpenGL. They are much lower, 85-98% lower compared to XP! 98%!!! Has anyone hear of any OpenGL drivers that will make OGL work natively with Vista? I remember reading something about nVidia working on beta drivers, plus I remember that MS said the OGL library was going to be included with VIsta. \|\| AMD Athlon64 3800+ Venice \| Asus A8N5X s939 \| OCZ Premier PC3200 Du-Ch 1GB \| Sapphire X1600Pro 512MB PCI-e \| 1xWD 80Gb & 1xWD 250Gb Sata(s) \| Antec SLK3800B Case \| Enermax NoiseTaker 485W \|\|

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