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Any news on OpenGL support?

I found out that Crossover only supports up to OpenGL 2.1 and not the later versions. I tested Wolfenstein: The Old Blood and got the error message saying it needs OpenGL 3.2. I found some old information about it here and here but it appears that all OpenGL games are out of luck.

Are there any plans for updating the OpenGL drivers and supporting newer versions? macOS still supports version 4.1 so it's possible to run many games that lack support in Crossover.

Hi there,

We are looking into solutions for better OpenGL support on CrossOver Mac. It's a tough problem since Apple deprecated OpenGL support, so I don't have a timelime atm.

Best,
Meredith

Meredith Johnson wrote:

Hi there,

We are looking into solutions for better OpenGL support on CrossOver Mac. It's a tough problem since Apple deprecated OpenGL support, so I don't have a timelime atm.

Best,
Meredith

Thanks for the reply! It sounds hopeful and I'm sure you'll be able to solve it eventually as usual. :) You can still run OpenGL 4.1 on macOS on top of Metal as I understand and people have been working on OpenGL 4.5 and 4.6 on Metal. This guy says he worked on OpenGL for Apple for 10 years: https://www.reddit.com/r/opengl/comments/qtxgph/its_alive_opengl_45_on_mac_os_metal/

There is also this project on Github: https://github.com/openglonmetal/MGL

Anything would be better than the current OpenGL 2.1 in Crossover.😎

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