[SDL] SDL 1.3 - SDL_Texture or SDL_Surface?

[Mike Powell]

Paulo Pinto wrote:
> No.
> 
> Microsoft provides a software only implementation of
> OpenGL 1.1 (or OpenGL 1.4 in Vista), that is why by
> default OpenGL it is so slow on Windows.
> 
> And even though this is a bad attitude from Microsoft,
> it is allowed by the OpenGL standard to provide software
> only implementations.

But the actual question was:

> to fix that all one had to do is get drivers from the
> graphics card vendor.  is there any truth to that ?

And this is in fact true, so long as your graphics card comes from a vendor that still includes OpenGL implementations. I know that nVidia and ATI do, which covers the vast majority of consumer graphics cards. If you have a more unusual card, you might be out of luck, but most Windows users, at least, should have a fully up-to-date release of OpenGL on their computer if they have up-to-date drivers for their graphics card. And even if their drivers are out of date, they will almost certainly provide an OpenGL implementation much newer then 1.1.