De ontwikkelafdeling van Nvidia heeft tijdens Siggraph 2008 een nieuwe set bètadrivers uitgebracht voor zijn Geforce-videokaarten, waarmee voorlopige ondersteuning voor Opengl 3.0 wordt toegevoegd. Om deze ondersteuning te activeren zal je naast de drivers zelf ook het programma nvemulate moeten installeren. Het versienummer is aanbeland bij 177.89 bèta en voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:
Driver 177.89 - Open GL 3.0 - Siggraph 2008
The Windows 177.89 Drivers available via the links below, released during Siggraph 2008, enable the latest features including OpenGL 3.0 support. This special page allows direct access to the new drivers for Siggraph attendees -- the drivers will become part of the standard release NVIDIA Graphics drivers in the days immediately following. To enable/disable OpenGL 3.0 features, please use the latest nvemulate tool.
OpenGL 3.0 beta driver release notes
This driver is aimed at developers to start coding to the new OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 features. These features are not enabled by default. They can be enabled using the nvemulate utility.
You need one of the following graphics cards to enable the OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 functionality.
Desktop: GeForce 8000 series or higher; GeForce GTX 260, 280; Quadro FX 370, 570, 1700, 3700, 4600, 4700x2, 5600
Notebook: GeForce 8000 series or higher; Quadro FX 360M, 370M, 570M, 770M, 1600M, 1700M, 2700M, 3600M, 3700M
This driver implements all of GLSL 1.30 and all of OpenGL 3.0, except for the following functionality:This driver exposes the following new extensions:
- One-channel (RED) and two-channel (RG) textures
- Mixed size FBO attachments (mixed-format attachments are supported)
- The Clearbuffer API
- Windowless rendering support (We suggest you use GPU affinity instead)
- Forward-compatible context
- Debug Context
OpenGL 2.1 extensions:OpenGL 3.0 extensions:
- ARB_vertex_array_object
- ARB_framebuffer_objectARB_half_float_vertex
The OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 specifications can be downloaded here. For any bugs or issues, please file a bug through the developer website.[break]De driver is in de volgende smaken binnen te halen:
- WGL_create_context
- ARB_draw_instanced
- ARB_geometry_shader4
- ARB_texture_buffer_object
- WGL_create_context
Nvidia Geforce 177.89 - Windows XP 32-bit
Nvidia Geforce 177.89 - Windows XP 64-bit
Nvidia Geforce 177.89 - Windows Vista 32-bit
Nvidia Geforce 177.89 - Windows Vista 64-bit