Intel's Mesa OpenGL driver has now finished up OpenGL 4.2 support

By Liam Dawe - 17 May 2016 at 6:18 pm UTC | Views: 8,289

Not long after gaining OpenGL 4.0 support, Intel's Mesa driver is now able to support OpenGL 4.2 and it's not far off 4.3.

To gain OpenGL 4.3 support, they only need "GL_ARB_robust_buffer_access_behavior".

Really impressive work as always and awesome to see the Intel driver finally supporting some more modern OpenGL. Great news for laptop users.

As usual, you can check the Mesa Matrix website to see what drivers support OpenGL wise. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Drivers, Intel, Open Source

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edo May 17, 2016

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seems to be it wont support haswell until the next release after this one, thats a shame

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nifker May 19, 2016

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my laptop got an Intel® GM45 Express Chipset so I don't think it will support OpenGL 4.X

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