[Wine] Re: world of warcraft Cata droping openGL

doh123 wineforum-user at winehq.org
Wed Sep 29 21:41:35 CDT 2010


They cannot drop OpenGL for Macs.. but yeah, they might drop support on it for Windows...

from someone at Blizzard...

> GLL is only the backend name, this is not a framework or a public library. All backends on MacOSX use OpenGL, there's nothing else...
> 
> A backend is the graphic engine layer that implements the platform specific graphics functions. Most games have only one per platform. WoW is different because it's been in development for years and needs to be constantly updated.


posted here...
http://wow-blue.com/mac-technical-support/t24401522953-difference-between-opengl-and-gll-api-s.html







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