Wolfenstein: The New Order gépigény

OpenGL
Wolfenstein: The New Order uses the OpenGL API. It is very rare to see a game using OpenGL these days, but id Software has uniquely stuck with OpenGL for its gaming engines, and id Tech 5 is no different. If you are unfamiliar with the different OpenGL versions, and what features are supported Wiki does offer a comprehensive overview of each one. It should be noted that OpenGL 4.4 is the latest version of OpenGL released in July of 2013. It is of course up to AMD and NVIDIA to provide said support into the drivers to open up that feature set to the GPUs.

Wolfenstein: The New Order, however, does not run under the latest version of OpenGL according to "qconsole.log" file. Comparing to DirectX, we have DirectX 11 (D3D11), DirectX 10 (D3D10), and DirectX 9 (D3D9). We are used to seeing games have options for some, or all of these API versions within DirectX. Naturally, D3D11 games are what we look forward to today. We look forward to that feature set of games as developers can use new and awesome features to push games forward. OpenGL has different versions too, and there are different versions that correspond comparatively to DirectX. OpenGL 4.0, for example, is the DX11 equivalent. OpenGL 3.3 is the DX10 equivalent, and OpenGL 3.2 is the DX9 equivalent.

Utilizing the "qconsole.log" file Wolfenstein: The New Order outputs we have determined that the game recognizes our video cards support OpenGL 4.4. This is good news in that NVIDIA and AMD have OpenGL 4.4 support. However, further reading the log file we find that this game does not run in OpenGL 4.x mode, instead this game runs under OpenGL version 3.2. That means that this game is on the level of a DirectX 9 (DX9) feature set type game.

Here is a snippet from the "qconsole.log" file.

------- Initializing renderSystem -------- GetWGLExtensionsWithFakeWindow: OpenGL Vendor: "ATI Technologies Inc." GetWGLExtensionsWithFakeWindow: OpenGL Renderer: "AMD Radeon R9 200 Series" GetWGLExtensionsWithFakeWindow: OpenGL version: "4.4.12874

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"CreateOpenGLContextOnDC: Using gl version 3.2 created OpenGL 3.2 context CreateOpenGLContextOnDC: Using gl version 3.2 created OpenGL 3.2 context ----- GL_Init ----- OpenGL version 3.2