Re: [pygame] Advice on Game Engine (OpenGL)

["Ben Friman" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 May 2005 at 4:09, Daniel Dornhardt wrote:
> Almost every PC on today's Desktops has an OpenGL - compatible 3d card 
> in them,

hmmmm that may be the case, but do they have the drivers installed 
or readily available?  I may be a little on the apathetic side about this 
as I'm not into games, but so far I've failed to find the OpenGL 
drivers for any of my 4 PCs (OK, so they're not the latest sexiest 
PCs - but the newest two are 4 and 1 years old respectively).

I did some searching for the drivers for ATI RADEON 9100 IGP 
(that's on my most recent XP PC) and found a drivers update & utility 
package - tried installing and the installation failed. The original 
installation CD doesn't include openGL drivers.

On my Win ME laptop, there's a SiS 630/730. Yes, it supports 
OpenGL but the drivers are for XP only!

I'd be interested to play with OpenGL, but the hurdles seem to be 
quite big and surely distributing applications dependent on openGL 
would be a nightmare with many users unable to run them?

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