You will need any one of the following Fermi, Kepler or Maxwell based GPUs to get access to the OpenGL 2015 and OpenGL ES 3.2 functionality:

Adds the EXT_blend_func_separate & EXT_multisample_compatibility extensions for OpenGL ES contexts Fixes a minor issue in ARB_parallel_shader_compile

I spent 20+ years learning how to write game engines from scratch and have made many orders of magnitude more money with my non-game project (which my gamedev skills very easily translated to) than any of my game projects.NVIDIA's Windows driver version 355.97 provide beta support for OpenGL 2015 ARB extensions and OpenGL ES 3.2 on capable hardware. Is it stubborn? Maybe, but they will gladly spend hundreds of dollars on a copy of my software if it does what they want/need because they see it as an investment rather than just a toy novelty like video games. If a program like mine doesn't run they just don't use that program, period. You would be surprised how many people are still running ancient hardware that has always done what they want and so they see no reason to invest in a new laptop or desktop.

I can just stick to a newer version of OpenGL but then my target audience shrinks because they're not all PC gamers who care about being on the latest hardware. They tend to be shop types who bought a computer 15 years ago and as long as it still works they see no reason to upgrade. Anything made in the last 5 years definitely has support for at least GL 4.3 (speaking in terms of x86-64).Įverything made in the last decade has at least GL 3.3 support.ĮDIT: I thought I'd also mention that I've been developing CAM software for designing art/engraving/sign projects and generating the toolpaths to cut them out on 3-axis CNC routers/mills for just over the last 4 years and made it a point to target GL 3.0 specifically because so many people who do such projects tend to not have much overlap with PC gamers.

Opengl 4.3+