randomkeyhits Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 In theory if you don't have a dedicated Linux OpenGL 4.0 driver then the fallback becomes Mesa which is not yet 4.0 compliant though they are working hard on it. Performance would be pretty bad too but once they have compliance it should run in some form if you were desperate enough. I've always made sure I've had NVidia under the hood simply because of their superior OpenGL support. Quote content over form, game play over all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I thought Mesa was the only Intel driver? NVidia and ATI have separate proprietary ones. When I talked to the driver team at Intel, their attitude was sort of like "Who cares? No one is using those features on Linux". So I would encourage you to request support for OpenGL 4 on Linux on their forums. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomkeyhits Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I thought Mesa was the only Intel driver? NVidia and ATI have separate proprietary ones. When I talked to the driver team at Intel, their attitude was sort of like "Who cares? No one is using those features on Linux". So I would encourage you to request support for OpenGL 4 on Linux on their forums. Xi have a commercial driver which supports Intel but I don't remember which of their offerings it does. Quote content over form, game play over all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspike Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I thought Mesa was the only Intel driver? NVidia and ATI have separate proprietary ones. When I talked to the driver team at Intel, their attitude was sort of like "Who cares? No one is using those features on Linux". So I would encourage you to request support for OpenGL 4 on Linux on their forums. Yeah, I like that kind of attitude... who cares I paid for the hardware, and I'm free to pick Linux, but hey we can ignore Linux as its not a mandatory operating system nowadays I even met with some guys who thought that Linux was before dos... (in order I mean...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelsoncs Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 This may be helpful, Intel has recently found a remediable issue related to Mesa. The patch may not be mainline until linux 3.18 according to the article (ubuntu 14.10 is currently at 3.16). http://news.softpedia.com/news/Massive-20-Improvement-to-Land-in-Intel-s-Mesa-Driver-Thanks-to-Valve-s-Efforts-464233.shtml 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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