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

["Ben Friman" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

I tried running an app that depended on OpenGL and it gave a 
message saying glut32.dll not found.  I looked up what glut32.dll is 
and find that it's the openGL driver and it has to be the correct 
version for your display card. From there on, I was stuck.

It's probably all my own fault as my PCs are all the "bargain 
basement" variety. That's just the way I am.

It's not too important to me, personally, because I don't play games. I 
do write skills-training software and python/pygame is the 
development environment that suits me best. There was just so 
much talk about openGL in this list, that I thought I should 
investigate. The only conclusion I have reached is that you can't rely 
on it being available for users.

> Ben:
> 
> How are you testing for the presence of drivers?  Are you searching
> the process list, or are you running a test program that relies on
> OpenGL?
> 
> I have not _specifically_ installed OpenGL on any machine, but it has
> always been available to run OpenGL dependant games, commercial and
> FOSS.  These machines are Windows XP.  I am not aware of what
> additional steps may be required to enable hardware accelerated OpenGL
> on suitable cards.
> 
> I would hope that people putting in hundreds of hours into a game
> would want that game played and enjoyed by the widest range of users. 
> Hundreds of hours can be just a semesters worth of weekends.
> 
> David
> 
> On 5/4/05, Ben Friman <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> > --
> > Regards
> > Ben Friman
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> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Ben Friman
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