OpenGL 3+ availability 91,48%

[theagentd]

From: Intel
To: Microsoft
Subject: Concerning WHQL validation

Hey, guys. Here’s our new driver.

• Everything is MUCH better than in the last driver. We didn’t bother to write any patch notes though.
• We now support DirectX 11! Please test it with this prerecorded VLC video.
• glClear() has been optimized a bit, so it’s almost as fast as rendering a fullscreen quad now.
• We now have driver support for FBOs on our newest hardware. Of course we’ve had it in DirectX 9 since two hardware generations ago, but it was a little bit trickier to get it working in OpenGL. Oh, and don’t mind that it renders in black and white instead. We haven’t quite figured out how to get colors working yet, but I mean, who would want to do COLORED 2D lighting? I mean, come on.
• Although we do have hardware support for tessellation, we only expose OpenGL 3 in our drivers and no OpenGL 4 extensions. Expect OpenGL support in a few months.
• We’ve optimized tessellation to the limit! It only costs a single FPS in the Unigine Heaven benchmark! Try it for yourself! (5 FPS -> 4 FPS) We even beat AMD’s low-end first generation DX11 cards when extreme amount of tessellation is enabled in a completely artificial tessellation benchmark!
• Smooth YouTube video support coming soon…
• Note on Nvidia Optimus (laptops with both an integrated Intel GPU for power efficiency and a discrete Nvidia card for performance): Some games crash on these laptops, but it’s purely the Nvidia drivers fault. It’s not like we’re loading the Intel driver and then try to run it on the Nvidia GPU or anything.
• OpenCL works! I hope running it on the CPU isn’t cheating…

Guys… Why does the tears just keep flowing? Make it stop…

[sproingie]

Shorter Intel: Baby why you always makin’ me hit you?