NVIDIA releases OpenGL 4.1 drivers

[Khronos_webmaster]

NVIDIA is proud to announce the immediate availability of OpenGL 4.1 drivers for Linux as well as OpenGL 4.1 WHQL-certified drivers for Windows.

You will need any one of the following Fermi based GPU to get access to the OpenGL 4.1 and GLSL 4.10 functionality:

• Quadro Plex 7000, Quadro 6000, Quadro 5000, Quadro 5000M, Quadro 4000
• GeForce GTX 480, GeForce GTX 470, GeForce GTX 465, GeForce GTX 460

For OpenGL 2 capable hardware, these new extensions are provided:

• ARB_debug_output
• ARB_ES2_compatibility (also in core OpenGL 4.1)
• ARB_separate_shader_objects (also in core OpenGL 4.1)

For OpenGL 3 capable hardware, these new extensions are provided:

• ARB_get_program_binary (also in core OpenGL 4.1)
• ARB_robustness
• ARB_viewport_array (also in core OpenGL 4.1)
• GLX_EXT_create_context_ES2_profile
• WGL_EXT_create_context_ES2_profile
• GLX_ARB_create_context_robust_access
• WGL_ARB_create_context_robust_access

For OpenGL 4 capable hardware, these new extensions are provided:

• ARB_shader_precision (also in core OpenGL 4.1)
• ARB_vertex_attrib_64bit (also in core OpenGL 4.1)

The drivers and extension documentation can be downloaded from http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_driver.html

[Alfonse Reinheart]

WGL_EXT_create_context_ES2_profile

... What is this? This doesn't appear to be in the registry.

[ruysch]

nor is GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info in the registry, I for one use

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/n...ngl_specs.html

This might not be the official channel, but an incomplete/untrustworthy registry is pointless in my opinion.

[Aleksandar]

WGL_EXT_create_context_es2_profile enables creating an OpenGL ES 2.0 context using a desktop OpenGL implementation. The current state of the spec can be found here:
http://developer.download.nvidia.com...s2_profile.txt

[Aleksandar]

By the way, these drivers (259.09) support 8 (out of 11) extensions introduced into core GL 4.1 specification. Currently only the following is not supported:
- GL_ARB_cl_event
- GL_ARB_debug_output
- GL_ARB_shader_stencil_export

I haven't tried all the extensions, but it looks nice so far...
Great job!
Thanks NVIDIA!

[Sockerdrickan]

Great work

[Chris Lux]

By the way, these drivers (259.09) support 8 (out of 11) extensions introduced into core GL 4.1 specification. Currently only the following is not supported:
- GL_ARB_cl_event
- GL_ARB_debug_output
- GL_ARB_shader_stencil_export

These are extensions introduced _with_ OpenGL 4.1 not _into_.

There is still one extension missing especially, introduced with OpenGL 4.0:
- GL_ARB_shading_language_include

[Aleksandar]

Totally agree! Sorry, it was a semantic error made in the rush.

[Ian Stewart]

Currently only the following is not supported:
- GL_ARB_debug_output

GL_ARB_debug_output is supported by the 259.09 drivers, but you must request a debug context for it to be available.

[Aleksandar]

Thank you very much, Ian!

I'll fix out my extension viewer. Well, it becomes more complicated to write good extension viewer. Now we should iterate through differently created contexts to find out what is supported in each one.

Not only the list of supported extensions differs, but also a pointer to functions cannot be retrieved if the proper GL context is not created.

So, yes, GL_ARB_debug_output extension is supported!
Ian, thanks again.