Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Textures on Bad Hardware

[Almar K. <alm...@gm...>]

On 17 September 2010 00:26, Greg Ewing <gre...@ca...> wrote:

> Almar Klein wrote:
> > Well, what *should* work 100% is checking the opengl
> > version (with glGetString(GL_VERSION)).
>
> No, this won't work 100%. It's better to test for the presence
> of a specific extension, in this case "ARB_texture_non_power_of_two".
>

Testing only the version *does* make sure that the system supports
non-power-of two textures. By testing also for the extension, you could
detect that the system supports non-power-of-two, even if the version is
smaller than 2.0. The latter is obviously a nicer solution, indeed.

  Almar