Posted September 01, 2013
I have always wondered why Frictional Games always uses it instead of DirectX, has anyone ever stated the reason for this? I always thought DirectX was easier to work with.
king_mosiah
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Registered: Apr 2011
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JudasIscariot
Thievin' Bastard
GOG.com Team
Registered: Oct 2008
From Poland
Posted September 03, 2013
DirectX is specific to Windows whereas OpenGL allows a game to be easily ported to other operating systems, such as Mac OS X :)
king_mosiah
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Posted September 03, 2013
Post edited September 03, 2013 by king_mosiah
INDIGO CYCLOPS
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Registered: Nov 2009
From United States
Posted September 09, 2013
And it's cheaper.
Argoon
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Registered: Mar 2011
From Portugal
Posted October 29, 2013
Yes OpenGL is a graphics API that works on all OS's is the one and only (for now) that works on LinuX and MacOSX. OpenGL even goes as far as to enable DirectX11 like features on Windows XP if wanted, like tesselation and GPU compute.
00dwan
nooooooooooookay
Registered: Dec 2013
From United States
Posted January 31, 2014
They should use Glide :D