{"id":114,"date":"2008-06-11T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/?p=114"},"modified":"2011-09-07T20:45:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T19:45:04","slug":"glsl-support-in-intel-graphics-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/20080611\/glsl-support-in-intel-graphics-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"GLSL support in Intel graphics drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A user from oZone3D.Net forum asked me some info about the GLSL support of Intel graphics chips. It&#8217;s wellknown (sorry Intel) that Intel has a bad OpenGL support in its Windows drivers and even if Intel&#8217;s graphics drivers support OpenGL 1.5, there is still a lack of GLSL support. We can&#8217;t find the GL_ARB_shading_language_100 extension (this extension means the graphics driver supports the OpenGL shading language) and this extension should be supported by any OpenGL 1.5 compliant graphics driver. You can use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/gpu_caps_viewer\/\">GPU Caps Viewer<\/a> to check for the avaibility of GL_ARB_shading_language_100 (in OpenGL Caps tab).<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of a Intel&#8217;s graphics driver that support openGL 1.5 without supporting GLSL:<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/gpu\/db\/index.php?which=e727285e35b268905779edd9c8dc12b6\">Mobile IntelR 965 Express Chipset Family<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more examples, look at users&#8217;s submissions here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/gpu\/db\/\">www.ozone3d.net\/gpu\/db\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay this is my analysis, but what is the Intel point of view? Here is the answer:<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/softwarecommunity.intel.com\/isn\/Community\/en-US\/forums\/thread\/30244399.aspx\">x3100 &#038; OpenGL Shader (GLSL) thread<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/softwarecommunity.intel.com\/isn\/Community\/en-US\/forums\/permalink\/30244399\/30249805\/ShowThread.aspx#30249805\">Intel&#8217;s answer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think GLSL support with Windows is not a priority for Intel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A user from oZone3D.Net forum asked me some info about the GLSL support of Intel graphics chips. It&#8217;s wellknown (sorry Intel) that Intel has a bad OpenGL support in its Windows drivers and even if Intel&#8217;s graphics drivers support OpenGL 1.5, there is still a lack of GLSL support. We can&#8217;t find the GL_ARB_shading_language_100 extension (this extension means the graphics driver supports the OpenGL shading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/20080611\/glsl-support-in-intel-graphics-drivers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GLSL support in Intel graphics drivers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18,299,269,298,300,638],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opengl","tag-glsl","tag-glsl-support","tag-graphics-driver","tag-intel","tag-lack-of-support","tag-opengl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":5276,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozone3d.net\/blogs\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}