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Looking at Renderer Information

An OpenGL Driver has at least two renderers associated with it—one hardware renderer and one software renderer. You can take a look at what each renderer supports by choosing Monitors > Renderer Information. Then, when the OpenGL Renderer Info window opens, you can click each of the disclosure triangles to view the settings for a particular renderer.

As Figure 1-5 shows, you can view the vender name and version, the OpenGL extensions that the driver supports, the buffer modes, various processing capabilities, and so on.


Figure 1-5  The renderer information window

The renderer information window

If you want to view renderer information for renderers other than those on your system, you can set up remote monitoring on the computers whose renderers you want to inspect. See “Monitoring an OpenGL Driver Remotely.”



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