Any other OpenGL games on the horizon?

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Doom 3 has really brought my Radeon card on its knees. I find myself
dreading my system performance on OpenGL.

With that in mind... are there any other games on the horizon that are
going to be OpenGL? Does Far Cry, Half-Life 2, the newest UnReal
game, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. use Direct 3D?

Generally speaking, I'd like to know the ratio between OpenGL and
Direct3D games that are being released. I've always assumed that the
vast majority of games are Direct3D these days, and that Id Software
is the only major company left relying on OpenGL. Is that right or
wrong?
 
Quake VI is coming out and will use the Doom 3 (OpenGL) engine. I found
that the 4.9 Catalyst drivers increased my OpenGL performance with my 9700
Pro with Doom 3. I'm sure there are other game specific engines out there
that use OpenGL.

But the rest of the major game engines all use Direct3D.
 
Quake VI is coming out and will use the Doom 3 (OpenGL) engine.
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I can understand Quake IV using the Doom 3 engine, but surely they'll
want something a bit more modern than the D3 engine for Quake VI?
 
OpenGL is alive and kicking because of id!!
BioWare (NeverWinter Nights and Knights of the Old Republic) uses OpenGL.
NeverWinterNights 2 will probably be in OpenGL.

Most of the game studios use Direct3d in its various forms.
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I can understand Quake IV using the Doom 3 engine, but surely they'll
want something a bit more modern than the D3 engine for Quake VI?
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Quake VI will be a macro based text editor game, the rendering engine
won't be an issue.
 
Doom 3 has really brought my Radeon card on its knees. I find myself
dreading my system performance on OpenGL.

With that in mind... are there any other games on the horizon that are
going to be OpenGL? Does Far Cry, Half-Life 2, the newest UnReal
game, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. use Direct 3D?

Generally speaking, I'd like to know the ratio between OpenGL and
Direct3D games that are being released. I've always assumed that the
vast majority of games are Direct3D these days, and that Id Software
is the only major company left relying on OpenGL. Is that right or
wrong?
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IL-2 Sturmovik uses OpenGL or D3D but most people run it in OpenGL
(faster for this game). I expect the upcoming Pacific Fighters will be
both too as it is based off the same graphics engine. But I doubt many
of you here care about a flight sim anyway.
 
Doom 3 has really brought my Radeon card on its knees. I find myself
dreading my system performance on OpenGL.

With that in mind... are there any other games on the horizon that are
going to be OpenGL? Does Far Cry, Half-Life 2, the newest UnReal
game, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. use Direct 3D?

Generally speaking, I'd like to know the ratio between OpenGL and
Direct3D games that are being released. I've always assumed that the
vast majority of games are Direct3D these days, and that Id Software
is the only major company left relying on OpenGL. Is that right or
wrong?
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Its going to be interesting to see what happens. Microsoft is on its
last version of D3d moving on to another standard. OpenGL being by
defenition "open" really doesn't need to rewrite to add features and
opengl has the benefit of being cross platform. Id is defenitely NOT
the only developer left using OpenGL.

You can read the pros/cons and what other developers are considering
at: http://www.gamedev.net/

Personally I like OpenGL, but then I also like cross platform code.
 
Quake VI will be a macro based text editor game, the rendering engine
won't be an issue.
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About time they stop focusing on graphics and concenrate on the actual
content of the game.
 
Opticreep said:
Doom 3 has really brought my Radeon card on its knees. I find myself
dreading my system performance on OpenGL.

With that in mind... are there any other games on the horizon that are
going to be OpenGL? Does Far Cry, Half-Life 2, the newest UnReal
game, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. use Direct 3D?

Generally speaking, I'd like to know the ratio between OpenGL and
Direct3D games that are being released. I've always assumed that the
vast majority of games are Direct3D these days, and that Id Software
is the only major company left relying on OpenGL. Is that right or
wrong?
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Staying in vein of Doom-type games, Serious Sam was OpenGL and
Croteam <http://www.croteam.com/> is working on Serious Sam II.
 
Tell Croteam then rather than try and sound clever here.
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I'm not trying to sound clever, you just need to take off the dunce
cap. They have released two SS games already, the next one will be
their 3rd and not second version. No matter what they may call it.
 
Mike said:
I'm not trying to sound clever, you just need to take off the dunce
cap. They have released two SS games already, the next one will be
their 3rd and not second version. No matter what they may call it.
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Serious Sam: Second Encounter was not a sequel. It was an expansion of the
first game. Serious Sam 2 is a sequel, hence the 2 after it.
 
Serious Sam: Second Encounter was not a sequel. It was an expansion of the
first game. Serious Sam 2 is a sequel, hence the 2 after it.
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Yea, that's why they decided to call it *second* encounter. Whatever.
 
I'm not trying to sound clever, you just need to take off the dunce
cap. They have released two SS games already, the next one will be
their 3rd and not second version. No matter what they may call it.
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By the same logic, Valve is about to release Half-life 3 this year,
right? As I remember, Half-life: Blueshift was an expansion to the
original Half-life which could be played standalone, so it was really
Half-life 2?
 
By the same logic, Valve is about to release Half-life 3 this year,
right? As I remember, Half-life: Blueshift was an expansion to the
original Half-life which could be played standalone, so it was really
Half-life 2?
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Theoretically, yes. But Blueshift was'nt called "The *Second* Coming".
See the difference?
 
No it doesn't. Go check the game engine video of "Serious Sam 2", it
looks nothing like the old "Serious Sam: Second Encounter". ;-) Google
for it, the filename is "seriousengine2full.wmv"

More info: http://www.croteam.com/
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second (sèk´end) adjective
Abbr. sec.
1. Coming next after the first in order, place, rank, time, or
quality.

1. a. The ordinal number matching the number 2 in a series.

two (t¡) noun
2. The second in a set or sequence.
 
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