Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX

Re:Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX by EpicEng on Thursday December 05, 2013 @05:06PM (#6857660)

All of your examples are casual games.

WoW, Rift, Guild Wars, SC, competitive FPS's, Witcher style RPG's, Elder Scrolls, etc. these are not games you will be playing on a tablet. There exists a clear divide between casual and serious gamers.

I don't mean to imply that there's anything wrong or inherently inferior about the more casual side of things, just that they really are two very different markets.

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Re:Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX by tripplethrendo on Thursday December 05, 2013 @06:44PM (#6858246)

You can play WoW and Guild Wars 2 on a Mac. Doesn't that mean they are OpenGL?

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Re:Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX by ahomescu1 on Thursday December 05, 2013 @08:23PM (#6858760)

Guild Wars 2 uses Wine internally to run the Windows GW2 client (I used to play it, and I'd occasionally get Wine errors).

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Re:Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX by EpicEng on Friday December 06, 2013 @01:53AM (#6859819)

WoW uses OpenGL and it runs like crap on a mac.

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