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		seanmcdirmid on Aug 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Win... Ok so my information must be outdated, apologies, I read about this a few years ago. OGL still needs to get rid of the legacy fixed unit pipeline and standardizes the interfaces for more advanced functionality (like OGL ES 2 and DX10).

mhenr18 on Aug 5, 2012 [–]

Ever heard of the Core Profile?

If you request an OpenGL context from your OS and ask for a core profile context, you'll get a context that's almost identical to ES2. It's shader based and all of the legacy fixed stuff is entirely gone.

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