Can you run OpenGL 2.0 on modern machines?
- by thePalindrome
I'm looking to get into 3d with OpenGL, using SDL to help with other stuff.
I found plenty of good tutorials (lazyfoo is a big one), but "Learning Modern 3d Graphics Programming" uses a newer version of openGL that I'm not able to run!
I opened up OpenGL extensions viewer, and I can only run OpenGL 2.0, whereas most tutorials are in higher versions.
I ask this because I've heard that just about everything in 2.* got depreciated in the newer versions, so I'm worried that my code might not work.
I'm looking at a few other tutorials, but I'm so used to SDL that those just confuse me...
So should I bother trying to do graphics programming now, or should I just wait until I can upgrade my computer?