Opengl Drivers

Article ID: 000005575 Many games require support for application programming interfaces (APIs) to function and to provide a high-quality gaming experience. OpenGL* and DirectX* APIs are designed to render 2D and 3D graphics.

Originally developed by Silicon Graphics in the early '90s, OpenGL® has become the most widely-used open graphics standard in the world. NVIDIA supports OpenGL and a. OpenGL, free and safe download. Atrenta Spyglass. OpenGL latest version: A Free Solid Graphics Engine for Everyone to Use. OpenGL is as the name implies an open source graphics API.

To confirm the current version of OpenGL* and DirectX* supported by the Intel® Graphics Controller on your system, open the Intel® HD Graphics Control Panel, click on Options and Support and look under Information Center: For more information on supported APIs per Intel® Graphics Controller you can visit. To manage OpenGL and DirectX settings through your graphics properties: • Right-click your Desktop. • Click Graphics Properties >3D. • Find the Intel® Graphics name that displays on your screen. • Based on the version you have, select it from the list below to help locate General and Custom Settings: Click or the topic for details: Intel® HD Graphics Control Panel From these screens, you can select 3D General Settings and Custom Settings. Intel® Graphics and Media Control Panel From these screens, you can select 3D General Settings and Custom Settings.

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver Older drivers can only control the OpenGL settings, not DirectX. You can change the value of each OpenGL attribute or Restore Defaults.

After settings are made, click Apply and OK to save them. • Click the Attributes below to determine how to control each setting. You can change the value of each OpenGL attribute or restore the default values to all attributes. Optimal setting vary depending on your system.

Select Apply to save your changes. Note The dialog box that displays and the options for 3D settings depend on your operating system and the graphics driver you have installed. Attribute Default value Other applicable values Conservative Morphological Anti-Aliasing Off On Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing On Off Asynchronous Flip Off (default value) - Enables vertical synchronization (also known as vertical sync or VSYNC). Vertical synchronization allows a frame change to coincide with an analog monitor’s vertical blanking interval.

Vertical sync might help reduce or eliminate tearing in the video. It can also cause reduced frame rate since the frame change is delayed until the vertical blank interval. On - Disables vertical synchronization. Windows 7 Permanent Activator Loader Extreme Edition V3 Full more. Off On Triple Buffering A technique to help reduce or eliminate visual artifacts such as flickering, tearing, or shearing.

Using three buffers to minimize the delay in redrawing the image, the cost is higher memory usage. Default (default value) - Driver selects triple buffering based on available memory. Off - Disables triple buffering.

On - Enables triple buffering. Off On Flipping Policy Flip (default value) - In applications that run in full screen, enables flip multi-buffering.

With flip operations, the render buffer is directly connected with screen. When it renders, it is simply swapped on to the screen without copying. Blit - Enables blit multi-buffering, which copies rendered buffer on to the screen. Blit operations use a raster operator to combine several bitmap patterns into one. Applications running windowed (not full-screen) can only use blit operations. Off On Depth Buffer Bit Depth 16 Bit Depth Buffer - Forces a 16-Bit depth buffer on PixelFormats that have a depth buffer. 24 Bit Depth Buffer - Forces a 24-Bit depth buffer/8-bit stencil buffer on PixelFormats that have a depth buffer.

Off On Force S3TC Texture Compression S3TC is a method of texture compression to reduce the texture size, for the cost of lower texture quality and higher processing power demand. Off (default value) - Driver does not automatically compress all RGB and RGBA format texture images into S3 compressed format. On - If the S3TC extension is supported, the driver automatically compress all RGB and RGBA format texture images to keep them internally in S3TC format. It reduces the amount of required memory and allows support of more textures. Off On Force FXT1 Texture Compression FXT1 is another method of texture compression to reduce the texture size, for the cost of lower texture quality and higher processing power demand.

Off (default value) – Driver does not automatically compress all RGB and RGBA format texture images into FXT1 compressed format. On - If FXT1 extension is supported, driver automatically compresses all RGB and RGBA format texture images into FXT1 compressed format.

Off On Driver Memory Footprint Determines how much memory driver uses for resources like textures or buffers. Winact 1.4.1.exe Windows 7 on this page. Normal (default value) - Driver automatically determines memory footprint based on available memory. Low - Driver does not reduce memory footprint. High - Driver unconditionally limits amount of used memory.