Moving on to looking at OpenGL 4.3’s features, unsurprisingly, one of the big additions to OpenGL 4.3 is to add the necessary features to make it a proper superset of OpenGL ES 3.0. OpenGL ES 3.0 Superset & ETC Texture Compression At the same time desktop OpenGL still has a long way to go to recapture its glory days in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, so Khronos is doing what they can to spur that on. Khronos of course would like to change that, so when Valve Software says that they’re going to be porting Source over to Linux (thereby increasing the audience for OpenGL games) it’s of quite some interest to Khronos. On Windows OpenGL usage has never been lower the only AAA game engine still based on OpenGL is id Tech 5, which with the termination of licensing by id is only used internally. This is not to say that it’s unimportant, but it will bring a smaller list of new features to the table.Īt the same time though, this also marks what may potentially be an interesting inflection point for OpenGL gaming on the desktop. Unlike OpenGL ES this is only a much smaller point update. Alongside OpenGL ES 3.0, desktop OpenGL is also being iterated upon today with the launch of OpenGL 4.3.
