OpenEuphoria

Re: Horde3D Engine for Euphoria

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> May 09, 2007
• 905 views

Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> Jonas Temple wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, dumb question.  I tried to run the demo and it says I may not have the
> > correct version of OpenGL.  How do I check "if" I have OpenGL and if it's
> > not
> > current, where do I get it?
> 
> Hi Jonas,
> 
> To the best of my knowledge the OpenGL drivers are part of your video card
> driver
> setup.
> 
> When I first tried running the official c++ demo on my machine, all I got was
> a black display. Updating my video card drivers fixed the problem.
> 
> Also, I probably should have mentioned this from the Horde website:
> 
> "Horde3D requires a fully OpenGL 2.0 compatible graphics card. In terms of
> DirectX
> that means a card supporting at least Shader Model 2.0 or better SM 3.0. So
> the minimum hardware needed to run an application using Horde3D is a NVidia
> GeForce FX or ATI Radeon 9500 graphics accelerator."
> 
> Finally, does it also fail on the included c++ version of the demo?
> 
> Mark

How would I know if i had a fully OpenGL 2.0 compatible graphics card or not?


Don Cole