I've started using both, right now I really like OGL because it's easier, but it seems D3D may be more powerfull

D3D seems maybe more ridiculous. Does anyone use that anymore?

THEY'D BETTER!!! I just downloaded the 140mb DirectX 8.0a SDK on my 56k modem!

Even if you are only interested in Windows coding, the new Windows OS's have dropped any D3D support.

Psion, D3D is DirectX. THey have done anything but drop DirectX.
D3D is overly complex in my mind, considering that OpenGL can achieve the same thing in a human readable form...

But do all cards support OGL? The only ones that I'm sure of are 3dfx, and they're gone ):

Everything within the last few years does. It's completely standardized now.

OpenGL is more portable -- But Direct3D is more powerful (with DX8.0 and up) -- Microsoft hasn't "dropped" D3D at all, for instance that's the 3D API used in Xbox games...

So it comes down to the choice of do you want portability or the best damn graphics/frame rates.

People on IRC tell me lies.

I think Ill learn both and then decide which to use

I think that is a waste of your time, but oh well...

I've already got 3D rotating texture mapped poly's in OGL :)

Then go with OpenGL....

CodeRed: Ummm, it's glide that only 3dfx supports...

Oh, right.

and now with the complete buyout of 3dfx by nvidia, i doubt we'll be seeing any more glide cards/games

@sphinX: yep same opinion...

actually i need to decide as well what im going to study, OGL or DirectX... but i think ill go with OGL since im intrested in Linux as well, and there are lots of improvements going on there... *Learn for the future, not for the present, cuz by the time you studied everthing for the present, things already moved on to the future*... get it??

I mean thatz what i think

*PredeX*

You have not run Windows XP yet have you? Windows XP does not support Open GL

Although NVIDIA has developed drivers that let you use Open GL in some games. Microsoft and the Industrial Community have decided on Direct 3D as being the new standard because it is more powerful.

If you have a Voodoo Card then you should use Open GL for everything because that is what the card is created for otherwise if you use a newer NVIDIA card you should use Direct 3D because it is more powerful.

Is this true? Windows XP doesn't support OpenGL? Where did this leave games like Quake3 which as far as I know doesn't have an equivalent DirectX rendering engine? If this has some truth, then Microsoft has once again alienated much of their potential user base. (at least development wise)

Damn MicroShitheads

Windows XP supports OpenGL just fine.

- taubz

kind of amusing how everyone got all excited when one person came up with a statement like that and there we no references...

I wasn't exactly 'excited' as I'm sure if Microsoft decided to do something as stupid as that I would still have no problem, as I'm sure nVidia being the nice people they are would've released drivers for it, and there would've been a third-party addon to support it. What I was excited at though, was the opportunity to point out Microsoft's idiocy, and say how much their operating systems suck...I'm sorely disappointed.

True.... They are not clever people, if you ask me. I think if someone was to port a DirectX clone to Linux, most games could be ported to Linux, and No problems would had. Linux would rule utterly, or even more than it does now.

Wine has a fair bit of D3D and associated directX paraphenalia in it.

Hmmmm.... must look into that.