[Bf-committers] OpenGL ICD on Vista

[Bart]

 From the OpenGL.org website:

Microsoft has enabled support for OpenGL ICDs that work with the Windows 
Vista compositing desktop, as of the February preview build.  This is 
taken from a Microsoft blog:
"Windows Vista ICD's - this is a new path for 3rd party ICD's introduced 
for Windows Vista that will work in a way that is compatible with 
desktop composition. Essentially allowing direct access to the GPU for 
hardware accellaration, but then having the final surface that appears 
to be the front buffer to the application actually be a shared surface 
that gets composed by the DWM".
This means that the OpenGL API and the Aeroglass window manager will 
work in harmony and fully accelerated once the hardware vendors get 
their Vista ICDs written and released.
Kudos to all developers who contacted their ISVs/HSVs to ensure that 
OpenGL was fully supported under Vista. You made the difference.