Intel Goes Ahead & Drops i915 Driver From OpenGL 2.1 To 1.4 By Default

[mulenmar]

Meh, my Thinkpad T60's graphics were always a bit slow anyway. Can't even run Doom 3 at a decent framerate on 640x480 at minimum...and apparently, Doom 3 was probably using 2.0 extensions, so this might be a boon for that?

In that vein: GZDoom requires 2.0 or higher. Doomsday engine's site claims "1.4 or newer" in the requirements page, though I seriously doubt it.

Not that anybody gets an Intel-only T60 for gaming in the first place. :P

[LinAGKar]

That's surprising. OpenGL 1.5 requires occlusion query support, which the hardware does not do. opengl.gpuinfo.org only shows a couple of OpenGL 1.5 implementations - XGI, a couple GeForce4s, and...surprisingly...a 965 (which should absolutely do GL 2.1). Can you point us at more details?

I'm just looking at Wikipedias list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ird_generation

[Alejandro Nova]

Plasma performance is also miserable because of this. Specially when you turned on the Folder View. So I tucked a R7 240 inside my resurrected Core 2 Duo (Allendale, G33) computer, and the problem was "solved" immediately.

[DebianLinuxero]

And that's not only a Chrome matter.

In GNOME, Totem's performance was miserable because of this.

I notized the change between versions 4 years ago.

[Kayden]

That's surprising. OpenGL 1.5 requires occlusion query support, which the hardware does not do. opengl.gpuinfo.org only shows a couple of OpenGL 1.5 implementations - XGI, a couple GeForce4s, and...surprisingly...a 965 (which should absolutely do GL 2.1). Can you point us at more details?

[LinAGKar]

I noticed there are some Atom chipset among the third generation graphics that supports 1.5 on Windows. Will these be affected?

[mattst88]

So this is about the third generation graphics then?

Yes.

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[dungeon]

At least it had "GL2" for near 4 years

[LinAGKar]

Here is a list of some chipset names:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/include/pci_ids/i915_pci_ids.h

Notably this does not affect any of the i965 class GPUs.

So this is about the third generation graphics then?

[crymsonpheonix]

Here is a list of some chipset names:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/include/pci_ids/i915_pci_ids.h

Notably this does not affect any of the i965 class GPUs.

In other words, unless you have a *really* old core2 system or a pineview netbook, this doesn't affect you.