Category Archives: Graphics API

NVIDIA and Cg – raising some hackles

Posted on May 8, 2003 by Ron

I have to admit that that I wasn’t particularly enthralled when NVIDIA announced Cg. It’s bad enough that we’ve got DirectX 9’s HLSL and OpenGL 2.0’s GSLang. As someone who got to program DirectX, OpenGL, Glide and CIF (ATI’s proprietary … Continue reading →

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Is Microsoft poised to open a brawl on the graphics front?

Posted on March 23, 2003 by Ron

Way back at the July 2002 OpenGL ARB meeting Microsoft made an amazing statement – that it has “possible claims” on IP related to vertex and pixel shader programming. Essentially Microsoft claimed they have patent rights relating to the ARB_vertex_program … Continue reading →

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Game Developer’s Conference Announcements

Posted on March 9, 2003 by Ron

Well, in an about face from previous years, there was lots going on at this year’s GDC. Here are some highlights. NVIDIA Announces new cards – The GeForceFX 5200 and 5600. Both are DirectX 9 cards. The 5200 is expected … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Withdraws From OpenGL ARB

Posted on March 7, 2003 by Ron

In a move that surprised no one, Microsoft withdrew from the OpenGL ARB, citing that it felt OpenGL was not advancing fast enough, and that it wanted to focus it’s energy on DirectX.  Microsoft has been less than useful at … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 21, 2002 by Ron

Microsoft has finally released DirectX 9 to the public. New features are High Level Shading Language (HLSL) support A Shader Debugger that integrates with Visual Studio. Pixel/Vertex shaders version 2.0/2.0+ (for the latest hardware) Pixel/Vertex shaders version 3.0 (a specification … Continue reading →

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Carmack backs OpenGL in shader wars

Posted on July 1, 2002 by Ron

By Andrew Orlowsk – the Register Game god John Carmack has given OpenGL his blessing in the ever-thickening shader wars. Carmack says that given the 3Dlabs P10 card, he opted to use the OpenGL 2.0 extensions for the shader path, … Continue reading →

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