OpenGL and DirectX

[HotDamn!]

I have an ASRock K10N78 motherboard that has NVIDIA GeForce 8200 on board graphics. And it says it has DirectX 10

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K10N78

I also want to upgrade and get another motherboard and graphics card that will be OpenGL compatible.

My question's are what is the difference between the two? Which would be best? Can I somehow get OpenGL to run on my current system? (I run windows XP pro.)

[Soopafresh]

Not that many apps take advantage of OpenGL - 3D CGI creator apps like Maya, 3DsMax, AutoCad are optimized for OpenGL
The most popular OpenGL cards are the Nvidia Quadro series - pretty expensive. Unless you have a specific app that wants OpenGL, spend your $ on a good DirectX card.


OpenGL cards tend to be very good for the apps above and not great for DirectX apps (the game world).

[HotDamn!]

Thanks. I just read up one some stuff about it and found what I was looking for a lot faster than I thought I would.

I guess I just wasnt 100 % sure on exactly what they were.

[Bjs]

OpenGl support was pretty well across the board after version 1.5 release