Intel Mesa Driver Getting Better Support For ETC2 On Older Hardware

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Intel Mesa Driver Getting Better Support For ETC2 On Older Hardware

04 February 2019, 06:20 AM

Phoronix: Intel Mesa Driver Getting Better Support For ETC2 On Older Hardware

For those running Ivybridge/Haswell era Intel graphics and older, better support for ETC2 texture compression is on the way...

Intel Mesa Driver Getting Better Support For ETC2 On Older Hardware - Phoronix

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04 February 2019, 02:21 PM

It was ETC2 or ASTC that is mandatory on OpenGL?
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04 February 2019, 07:18 PM

OpenGL ES 3.0 requires ETC2. OpenGL ES 3.2 (or the GL_ANDROID_extension_pack_es31a extension) require ASTC.

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