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glcaps (version 1.1.2)

Print OpenGL capabilities

This tiny program tests that OpenGL library is installed and writes on standard output a lot of information about default OpenGL context.

• If you don't know what OpenGL is then you probably don't need to use this program. Unless some developer asked you to use glcaps to check do you have a good OpenGL implementation installed.
• If you know what OpenGL is then you probably realize how trivial this program is :) All is done by creating a temporary window with OpenGL context and asking for many values with glGet* functions.

Download glcaps:

• Download glcaps for Linux (i386)
• Download glcaps for Windows (i386)
• Download glcaps for Mac OS X (i386)

Sources of this program are available from this page, in case you're interested.

Optional command-line options

You can call glcaps with some of the options listed below. Requested OpenGL context will have given capabilities (in case of bit sizes, you provide the minimum requested bit size). If you know OpenGL, then the meaning of these options should be self-explanatory. They are useful to check e.g. is your graphic card able to provide 16-bit stencil buffer.

  -s / --stencil-bits STENCIL-BUFFER-BIT-SIZE
  -a / --alpha-bits ALPHA-CHANNEL-BIT-SIZE
  -d / --depth-bits DEPTH-BUFFER-BIT-SIZE
  --accum-red-bits ACCUM-RED
  --accum-green-bits ACCUM-GREEN
  --accum-blue-bits ACCUM-BLUE
  --accum-alpha-bits ACCUM-ALPHA
  --accum-bits ACCUM-RED ACCUM-GREEN ACCUM-BLUE ACCUM-ALPHA
  --multi-sampling SAMPLES
    (1 means "no multisampling")
  --single
  --double

Also all standard options understood by my OpenGL programs are allowed, see also some notes about command-line options understood by my programs.

GLUT versions

• Download glcaps_glut for Linux (i386)
• Download glcaps_glut for Windows (i386)
• Download glcaps_glut for Mac OS X (i386)

Sources of this program are available from this page, in case you're interested.

glxinfo notes

XWindows users can also use glxinfo program. It's purpose is similar to glcaps (but it's only for GLX, so it's able to write some info like all possible visual configurations).

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Copyright Michalis Kamburelis. This page is considered part of documentation of my programs, and you are free to modify and further distribute it on terms of GNU General Public License.

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