x3100 & OpenGL Shader (GLSL)

[rpk]

hi, i recently purchased a santa-rosa-based system with x3100 integrated graphics. i was disappointed to see that under windows XP, i really only have baseline opengl 1.5 support, and no GLSL (ARB_(vertex|fragment)_shader) support. i'm running the latest drivers (14.31.1.4864).

the reason for my surprise, is that when running under Mac OS X, i see full GLSL 1.10 support.

i'm looking for guidance as to when full support for GLSL will be available under windows XP.

thanks, bob

[agent_j]

I would also love to see GLSL (ARB_(vertex|fragment)_shader) support in addition to GL_ARB_shader_objects support as well for windows Vista so that we can finally play Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

[davidc1]

I can't confirm but with the 15.7.3 driver it seems ET: Quake Wars can run. XP still can't.

[screwzloos]

Over a month has gone by, and there is still no GLSL support on Intel'sdrivers under XP. Has anyone figured out a way around this? Our operating system really isn't obsolete or obscureyet, and Intel needs to acknowledge that. I wasn't planning on putting Vista on my Macbook, but I got the thing so I could do my GLSL homework on it.

So now what?

[Jon_Watte]

The reason Apple has the support is that they write their own OpenGL drivers.

It's unlikely that Intel will support GLSL anytime soon, at least not on the Extreme/GMA/X series graphics cards.

They do, however, support ARB_vertex_program and ARB_fragment_program, so applications that use CG, or generate the ARB assembly programs themselves, will work.

Anyway, I don't quite see why you would want that support, because the parts are slow enough that most games really aren't enjoyable anyway. If you have any choice in the matter, a discrete solution is a lot better.