Glsetup driver

Whenever I install new beta versions of my video drivers from Creative or Nvidia…does doing this alone automatically upgrade my opengl drivers? All in either one package, or in a few separate packages for download.

And doindg this will give you the latest drivers available. GLSetup is just a program that detects your card, and install the proper driver for it. It contains several drivers for loads of different cards and chips. So if you already installed the latest drivers from your manufacturer, running GLSetup is rendurant.

Thanks Bob… However…my real question is… Whenever I install new beta versions of my video drivers from Creative or Nvidia…does doing this alone automatically upgrade my opengl drivers? Windows XP , Windows Vista or Windows 7 , because hardware necessary to run those operating systems tends to have much better or complete graphic driver support for Open GL specifications, meaning that glsetup. Although this article has been updated slightly it should be noted that it was originally written when Quake 3 was published c.

Open GL setup glsetup. Whilst a number of them had proprietary systems, Open GL was considered a useful 'cross-platform' language and so was supported by most graphics card manufacturers. However, "support" didn't always means "supply" so there was a need for a third party application to provide drivers that recognised and installed the appropriate OpenGL based material for a given graphics card.

More often than not, it was supplied on CD's used to install purchased games. When openGL drivers are used they make a noticeable difference to Quake 3's performance than the 'default' graphics card drivers as supplied with and when the the game is installed. For example, when compared to a games machine that had a classic Voodoo3 in place 16MB , the default drivers dated supplied on the VooDoos driver CD don't run q3 very well at all - missing polygons, transparent surfaces and generally a bad visual experience.

As an aside, the default drivers did seem to affect the connection quality to the internet when using a dial up modem device. Installing and updating to the latest available drivers with glsetup, at the time dated , meant that most of the graphics problems disappeared after a little fiddling around with Quake 3's main game settings.

Oddly, the new glsetup drivers adversely affected the modems connection to the net!. It's a must to run this really as graphics card manufacturers don't seem to update their own drivers too often, usually the graphics card drivers supplied on the products installation CD are the latest drivers! Graphic card drivers are an area where you either have problems or you don't, there doesn't seem to be a 'happy middle ground' with them.

The Voodoo's generally can handle q3 quite well without the GLSetup drivers but, and as an example, a friend yes I do have a life outside of Quake! I think you get the picture..!