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    Quote Originally Posted by RoadClosed
    //EDIT speaking of video drivers, that is a major smack off with MS in my book. Take Nvidia, the MS Vista driver DOES NOT SUPPORT OPEN GL.
    One of my friends had the same experience with an ATI card that came with his new Dell. The driver from the ATI site works fine, but the one that came with vista didn't support opengl (which was a bit of a bummer since his final year project uses opengl :P)

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    Mohaughn makes an excellent point here

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    Win fs

    Hi,
    May be Microsoft should have included Win FS in vista.
    I am working on Linux ,so don't know much about Windows
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    Quote Originally Posted by gothic_type
    One of my friends had the same experience with an ATI card that came with his new Dell. The driver from the ATI site works fine, but the one that came with vista didn't support opengl (which was a bit of a bummer since his final year project uses opengl :P)

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    This is a pretty annoying issue for the CAD boys. Vista is intended to run ActiveX whilst a lot of proprietary CAD systems use Opengl.

    Vista does support Opengl, however, it is a very basic version 1.4, not the latest 2.0 and it does it over Direct3D, which screws performance.

    The workaround is to load an ICD from the video card vendor. Unfortunately, this will most likely disable a lot of the Vista Ultimate eye candy (Aeroglass), but it will allow you to run Opengl just fine.

    I haven't tried it, but I would possibly look at messing with user and hardware profiles to see if I can switch between the two?


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    the MS Vista driver DOES NOT SUPPORT OPEN GL.
    Isn't this just one more example of why you need to understand
    that it really isn't about the OS, it is about Microsoft and their tactics.

    Who would buy a car if you were then forced to buy their brand of gasoline,
    tires, cigarettes and beer? "Chevy doesn't support Budweiser. You can
    only drink Miller while driving a Chevrolet"
    I came in to the world with nothing. I still have most of it.

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    This is nothing new................Windows has been having problems with OpenGL since Windows 2000:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11...indows_opengl/

    Nothing surprising, the only difference with Vista is that the fancy aeroglass won't work alongside it.

    Windows is M$ proprietary software............ OpenGl is open source............ not really different from what you would expect is it?


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    Hi,
    If we are talking about eye candy,we can make Linux no less then Vista or even better
    www.beryl-project.org

    One just gotta love it
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    Quote Originally Posted by TejasV
    Hi,
    If we are talking about eye candy,we can make Linux no less then Vista or even better
    www.beryl-project.org

    One just gotta love it
    Technically, I can see no reason why that should not be true. There was the Lindows (later called Linspire) offering that was Linux based with a Windows based GUI?

    I can remember back in the days of Windows 3.X ...........AppleMac was a far superior GUI. You will no doubt have heard the expression "winning the war but losing the peace"?

    Well that is how I see Apple........... they had the edge product wise, but lost the marketing battle due to their obsolete (hardware based) business model.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcgreen
    "Chevy doesn't support Budweiser. You can
    only drink Miller while driving a Chevrolet"
    Don't drink and drive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gore
    Don't drink and drive.
    Smoke and fly...
    Real security doesn't come with an installer.

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