[SDL] SDL 1.3 - SDL_Texture or SDL_Surface?

[Paulo Pinto]

Hi,

but when people have their drivers already installed, that doesn't
mean that they will have a good OpenGL support available.

Not everyone has ATI or NVidia cards. There are other manufacturers
on the market.

And even if you consider just the two main manufacturers, they are
only producing the chipsets and not all cards work with the standard
drivers. This is usually the case when you use cheap boards.

Not everyone is using branded PCs, actually in most European countries,
people tend to buy OEM computers and not all of them are high quality.

Thus if you are expecting to hit the mass market, don't expect to find a
good OpenGL support everywhere.

Cheers,
Paulo



Quoting Stefan Hendriks <stefanhen83 at gmail.com>:

> > > However, the real problem here is that drivers "never" get installed!
> > > Your average casual gamer doesn't want to, or doesn't know how to
> > > install drivers. Many users don't even understand what "drivers" are
> > > all about. People assume that everything should work out of the box.
> 
> I think its the opposite; people already have drivers installed of
> their video cards. Especially people who are not above avarage users,
> since they buy the laptop/pc with everything installed on it already
> (including drivers).
> 
> The only thing i can think of is that people have reinstalled Windows
> and have no clue to install drivers (or just install the most common
> ones, like a printer driver , or surround sound).
> 
> 
> 
> > > If a downloaded demo/shareware trial won't Just Work(TM), it gets
> > > thrown away and forgotten about. People don't even think about
> > > messing with drivers (if they know how to), unless possibly if
> > > they're trying to run a pre-paid commercial game.
> >
> If people download your game, and suppose they do play other games
> (like C&C, Quake, whatever) , they also have installed the needed
> drivers for these games.
> 
> Your scenario only describes people who :
> 1. installed their computer, blanco
> 2. never play other games
> 3. download a shareware/demo/freeware game which needs OpenGL
> 
> looks to me that this is very, very, very rare.
> 
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