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by cmiles74 3417 days ago
I don't see why this would be the case. The vendors (i.e. NVidia) are providing the drivers, I see no reason why they would porposely cripple them.
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TazeTSchnitzel 3417 days ago
It's the current reality with OpenGL on Windows, which is why Windows browsers do not implement WebGL with OpenGL, but rather by translating to Direct3D.

Maybe it'll be different for Vulkan, but that would be a surprise.

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Rusky 3417 days ago
Because they have been doing so with OpenGL (an identical situation) for years.

Besides, "purposefully cripple" is inaccurate. They just put more effort into Direct3D because there's no reason to support OpenGL as fully.

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pjmlp 3417 days ago
Including the SDKs, AMD and NVidia SDKs for a long time used to have better DirectX tooling than OpenGL.
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