Actually, WoW supports Directx or OpenGL for rendering and the underlying OS support/features also impact the additional features available.
In windows, it uses by default Directx rendering because OpenGL support is at best "there" and at worst hideous (due to drivers support, MS itself etc). If you append "-opengl" to your shortcut or adding SET gxApi "opengl", to the WTF/config.wtf file WoW will use OpenGL instead of Directx/Direct3D.
On the Mac it uses OpenGL with lots of integration into CoreVideo/ Audio which allows the native video capture etc. To my knowledge Blizzard hasn't yet started using OpenCL but it will be interesting when they do.
- Brian On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:11 AM, John Rivera wrote:
WoW is directx, and is not linux native, i was talking about native Linux opengl apps, like Google earth, urban terror, and Saurbraten i can play counter strike source in wine and i have no problems with compiz, then it locks up hard and i have to reboot )-:
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