To realize such a huge performance gain, a three-pronged approach is taken: The game is tweaked to play nicely with the Linux kernel, the game is optimized to work with OpenGL (rather than DirectX ...

this didn't used to happen to me. i'm not sure what it is i've done... i've got directx8 on windows 2000, and timedemos in directx for action halflife and cs are visibly slower than their opengl ...

AMD also rewrote its DirectX 11 drivers earlier this year, though the performance gains in most games were generally much smaller than the improvements provided by the new OpenGL drivers.

"OpenGL 4.0 exposes the same level of capability of GPUs as DirectX 11," the competing interface from Microsoft, Khronos said in a presentation. The company announced the new standard, along with ...

ATI has released as open source an application that assists developers in converting Windows DirectX 9 HLSL graphics code into GLSL, which can be used on the Mac.

An upcoming driver release for AMD's Radeon graphics cards has been tested and found to deliver up to around a 54 percent OpenGL performance gain in Windows 11.

The Khronos Group today announced the final specifications for the latest OpenGL release. Version 4.1 of the open graphics spec looks to be aimed at moving ahead of its main competitor, DirectX 11.