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- Price: Free to try
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows 98
- Date added: January 26, 1999
- Total Downloads: 277,822
- Downloads last week: 133
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- Average user rating: stars out of 129 votes
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Publisher's description
From SciTech Software :SciTech GLDirect is a utility package for Windows 95/98 that allows OpenGL-based games and applications to access 3D hardware acceleration using the Microsoft Direct3D 6.x drivers provided by your graphics hardware manufacturer. Many PC graphics cards only come with drivers for Microsoft Direct3D, Microsoft's 3D interface. OpenGL is a cross-platform, high-performance standard for 3D graphics applications. Since developing OpenGL drivers can be considerably more complex than developing Direct3D drivers, many graphics hardware vendors have not released quality OpenGL 1.2 drivers for their hardware in a timely manner.
This is where SciTech GLDirect comes in: SciTech GLDirect enables OpenGL applications to use Direct3D drivers for 3D hardware acceleration. By combining the power of OpenGL with the wide availability of Direct3D hardware drivers, SciTech GLDirect enables OpenGL-compliant applications and games to run on Direct3D-compatible hardware in the Windows 9.x operating systems. This is a 21-day trial with all functions enabled. Version 1.01 includes an improved registration system.
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- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 129 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: SciTech GLDirect 1.01
Summary: MY pc had poor open gl performance (eg. quake 3 engine and others) then i installed this and open gl programs ran faster coz it uses direct 3d :D old version (1.1) really sucks but the new one rocks.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: SciTech GLDirect 1.01
Summary: i cant uninstall it, if i uninstall it, my other programs always appears as a error
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: SciTech GLDirect 1.01
"best thing on the market!!!!!"
Summary: turned my graphics card into another dimention.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: SciTech GLDirect 1.01
Summary: I have a PIII 450 MHZ 186 RAM and a poor video card a Sis 8mb and this program really improve all my game performance...now i can play quake III using lightmap and high texture quality and it looks great
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: SciTech GLDirect 1.01
Summary: I hate xp for one good reason.. the idots took out open gl!! I couldn't play any gl games at all then with this I can get blueshift demo to do gl in 1024x768 and above!!! It doesn't work with quake and quake 2 gl but d3d works on it.. Better than ... read more >>
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