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qwertyuiopas

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another bit of proof about DF's popularity:
« on: November 15, 2007, 12:24:00 am »
wikipedia openGL page :(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL)

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Some notable games with OpenGL renderer include:

America's Army
Baldur's Gate 2 – Defaults to D3D
Call of Duty
City of Heroes
City of Villains
Counter-Strike
Doom 3
Dwarf Fortress
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Half-Life (not Half-Life 2)
Neverwinter Nights
Prey
Quake series
Rage
Serious Sam
Serious Sam 2 – Defaults to D3D
Starsiege: Tribes
Unreal series
Warcraft 3 (D3D by default under Windows, can select OpenGL renderer from command line)
World of Warcraft (D3D by default under Windows, can select OpenGL renderer from command line)
Homeworld 2  

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Re: another bit of proof about DF's popularity:
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2007, 04:35:00 am »
Wow, Cool.   :)

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Re: another bit of proof about DF's popularity:
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2007, 07:12:00 am »
I wonder why is Toady decided to use Opengl btw.   :eek:
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Re: another bit of proof about DF's popularity:
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2007, 07:25:00 am »
OpenGL makes life easier when it comes to supporting multiple resolutions and may reduce CPU load.
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Re: another bit of proof about DF's popularity:
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2007, 08:04:00 am »
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Originally posted by Tormy:
<STRONG>I wonder why is Toady decided to use Opengl btw.    :)
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Re: another bit of proof about DF's popularity:
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2007, 08:51:00 am »
Wow, that's some popularity.
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Re: another bit of proof about DF's popularity:
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2007, 10:40:00 am »
Ah I see...[about opengl]
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Re: another bit of proof about DF's popularity:
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2007, 11:26:00 am »
My 2 favs of all time DF and COV/COH!!!!!!
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Re: another bit of proof about DF's popularity:
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2007, 06:38:00 pm »
WE NEED GPUS FOR DF'S ADVANCED PHYSICS!

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Re: another bit of proof about DF's popularity:
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2007, 08:17:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Nukeitall:
<STRONG>WE NEED GPUS FOR DF'S ADVANCED PHYSICS!

heh</STRONG>

Dwarf Fortress's physics probably could get a decent speed boost by using the GPU to handle vector calculations in parallel. Unless somebody has written a simple general-purpose GPU library that works well with a wide variety of hardware, however, doing so probably wouldn't be worth Toady's time.

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