accelerated argb offscreen rendering on windows

OpenGL OpenGL: Advanced Coding
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Hi is hardware accelerated offscreenrendering on windows possible ? Read something about wgl offscreenrendering but does it support argb.

any help is highly appreciated
thx a lot

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The current method is GL_EXT_framebuffer_object and there is an example at developer.nvidia.com
http://download.developer.nvidia.com/developer/SDK/Individual_Samples/featured_samples.html

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If you are targeting mobility ATI devices like mobility FireGL v3100 or some other cards that don’t have support for GL_EXT_framebuffer_object (at least not in the Dell supported drivers) you may want to look into pBuffers.

Here is a sample:
http://download.nvidia.com/developer/SDK…xture_rectangle