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Re: direct x \ opengl
[Re: AlbertoT]
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02/17/07 14:11
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Well first of all, because 95% of all the OS systems on desktop computers is windows directX will be the choice for many developers and thus graphic card manufacturers. Second of all, why is mac a important segment for indie game programmers? Sure more people buy a mac book these days but it's just far to low for indie game developers to actually sell their game for a mac (it's not profitable) so if 3dgs uses directX they will maybe not hit all of the market but at least most of it anyway
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Re: direct x \ opengl
[Re: bstudio]
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02/17/07 18:30
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l, because 95% of all the OS systems on desktop computers is windows directX will be the choice for many developers
Fine but if you consider the offer of professional games then 99.999 % are for windows In other words Mac users are lacking games consequently it is a good opportunity for Indie programmers A 5 % of Mac user stand for milion users, dont forget it ! Anyway my question was a bit different I have the impression that graphic cards are sometimes buggy with opengl and \ or they are slow to implement the last feature Just a gut feeling What about your experience ?
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Re: direct x \ opengl
[Re: AlbertoT]
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02/18/07 09:31
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Yes but as PHeMoX pointed out the mac isn't a gamer platform (it's more a developers platform) so out of more than a million users how much of them actually spends time gaming on it? all the owners of mac computers (and laptops) i know have another windows computer to play their games on....
as for the other question: Well, the things that i programmed with openGL weren't less buggy or slower then the directX programs i wrote. As far as i know the manufactures of graphical cards do not deliberately make support for openGL less. Off course it could be the API's fault.
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