high quality ETC2 / EAC texture compression as a standard feature, eliminating the need for a different set of textures for each platform texture parameter queries to discover actual supported texture parameter limits on the current platform shader storage buffer objects that enable vertex, tessellation, geometry, fragment and compute shaders to read and write large amounts of data and pass significant data between shader stages compute shaders that harness GPU parallelism for advanced computation such as image, volume, and geometry processing within the context of the graphics pipeline New functionality in the OpenGL 4.3 specification includes: The full specification is available for immediate download at Twenty years since the release of the original OpenGL 1.0, the new OpenGL 4.3 specification has been defined by the OpenGL ARB (Architecture Review Board) working group at Khronos, and includes the GLSL 4.30 update to the OpenGL Shading Language. The OpenGL 4.3 specification contains new features that extend functionality available to developers and enables increased application performance. OpenGL 4.3 integrates developer feedback and continues the rapid evolution of this royalty-free specification while maintaining full backwards compatibility, enabling applications to incrementally use new features while portably accessing state-of-the-art graphics processing unit (GPU) functionality across diverse operating systems and platforms. However on the Desktop both nVidia and AMD support the compatibility profile, so your old OpenGL programs should work.The Khronos Group today announced the immediate release of the OpenGL 4.3 specification, bringing the very latest graphics functionality to the most advanced and widely adopted cross-platform 2D and 3D graphics API (application programming interface). The core profile is upward compatible from 3.1, and the compatibility profile is upward compatible all the way from OpenGL 1.1.īut the compatibility profile is not required for OpenGL compilance, so the driver writers may chose to provide only the core profile in which case your 2.1 programs may not work. However in Version 3.2 the ARB defined the concept of GL “profiles” and defined the “core” and “compatibility” profiles. Most OpenGL versions are upward compatible, the only GL version which removed some APIs was the Version 3.1. lib files will be different in GL 4.3, so will my code that I wrote with GL 2.x still compile with GL 4.3? Just out of curiosity, do we still use glut in GL 4.3? I guess the. I’m planning on getting a new PC soon, just wondering where I stand.

I’m actually using the graphics chipset on my motherboard, which worked fine when programming GL 2.x.

Does my card support opengl 4.3