| rocketpig said:
PS: HUGE LOL at this article bringing up Macs and Linux in a gaming conversation. |
They are, if anything, more suited to games (performance and reliability considerations) than Windows. The major obstacle to Mac OS X and Linux becoming gaming platforms is Direct3D. The increased adoption of OpenGL due to the mechanisms in the original post will lead to more games being ported. I fail to see the 'lol'.
"Gee, DX10 is still pretty new and it's mostly unsupported by hardware. Shocking."
The difference this time is DX10 being Vista-exclusive, low Vista adoption rates relative to expectations, and the policy of Nvidia to NEVER adopt DirectX 10.1.
"OpenGL is way behind the game and doesn't get updated nearly as often as it needs to keep up with DirectX."
Officially, yes, but independent extensions (impossible with DirectX) bring OpenGL up to at least DirectX 10.1; certainly all features of DX10 in use in the real world can be done with OpenGL 2 plus extensions.
