CNET

OpenGL galvanizes game graphics

The organization behind the OpenGL graphics software released specifications Thursday for a major update designed to add some razzle-dazzle to computer games. Specifications for version 2.0 of OpenGL ...
ExtremeTech

Valve open-sources its DirectX to OpenGL translation software: Here come the SteamOS and Linux games?

Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2, Team ...
ExtremeTech

Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX -- even on Windows

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...
Ars Technica

DirectX/3D vs. OpenGL, the saga of the Detonators (problems)

Let me begin, up until recently I was using the 12.00WHQL Detonator 3's, all was fine. perfectly stable and so on. then it developed this odd problem.<P>Launching any OpenGL application, using, and ...
Ars Technica

Glut/OpenGL and a small battle ship game....problem

I have to make a small battleship 2d/3d game for school. We are using opengl and GLUT. The problem I am having, well one of the problems I am having ( -- ...