OpenGL Headline News
New Catalyst drivers v8.49.7 for FireGL deliver 33% faster Linux OpenGL performance
Category: Processors •
Jun 30, 2008
The enhanced v8.49.7 Linux Catalyst driver for the FireGL graphics card offer dramatically improved performance of CAD and digital content creation applications and can offer up to 33 percent faster OpenGL performance than the previous drivers.
gDEBugger V4.2 Adds full support for Frame Buffer Objects (FBOs)
Category: Developers •
Jun 27, 2008
The new gDEBugger V4.2 adds full support for Frame Buffer Objects (FBOs). It enables developers to view allocated FBOs and Renderbuffer objects, FBOs attachment points (depth, color and stencil) and Renderbuffers data as an image and raw data. This version adds full support for OpenGL context sharing. Shared objects are now displayed in each and every render context that shares them. In addition, NVIDIA GLExpert driver (v2.0) was integrated into this version. gDEBugger, an OpenGL and OpenGL ES debugger and profiler, traces application activity on top of the OpenGL API, lets programmers see what is happening within the graphic system implementation to find bugs and optimize OpenGL application performance. gDEBugger runs on Windows and Linux operating systems.
Lightsprint realtime GI based on OpenGL now on PS3 and Linux
Category: Applications •
Jun 27, 2008
Lightsprint released new version of Lightsprint SDK, realistic lighting middleware for both realtime and offline lightmap building. New version adds Linux and Playstation 3 support, improves real-time GI rendering based on OpenGL API, improves Collada support, adds tone mapping, adds faster GI techniques and demos. 3D Render Ltd licensed Lightsprint SDK.
FurMark 1.4.0 - OpenGL Benchmark
Category: Developers •
Jun 24, 2008
FurMark is an OpenGL benchmark that stresses the GPU with fur rendering. The benchmark offers several options allowing the user to tweak the rendering: fullscreen / windowed mode, MSAA selection, window size, duration. The benchmark also includes a GPU Burner mode (stability test). This new version fixes some minor bugs and adds command line parameters as well as a Xtreme Burning mode to overheat the GPU!
AsdGraph3D OpenGL based Excel Addin v1.2 is released!
Category: Applications •
Jun 23, 2008
J & L Associates is pleased to release AsdGraph3D Excel Addin v1.2, an OpenGL based 3D plotter/visualizer within MS Excel. This new version adds silky smooth rotation with an ArcBall interface, an new option to plot data as paired line segments and the support for color attributes for individual data points.
