ATI Confirms OpenGL 1.5 Support For Current Lineup

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As reported earlier on July 29th the OpenGL 1.5 specification has been published and presented to the public at Siggraph2003. Since ATI in original marketing material already promised OpenGL 2.0 compatibility we went right to the source to clarify the current situation in terms of actually possible support for the new extensions on ATI hardware. Our talks with ATI's Terry Makedon yielded the following facts: Products from the RADEON 9500 and higher are capabable of supporting OpenGL 1.5, but we also need the driver to support these extensions. Support will be through a driver update and I can't comment on when right now. We are finishing up some coding for this and are on a fast track for implementing it. The claim of OpenGL 2.0 (compliance) is correct, but obviously we can't officially support it in our drivers until it is released to the public.