Where to get OpenGL drivers?
Every modern operating system offers various levels of support for the OpenGL graphics library. Operating system support for OpenGL is listed below.
To use hardware-accelerated OpenGL, your GPU (graphics processing unit) must support it. Ensure the video card supports OpenGL before using hardware-accelerated OpenGL on your system.
Windows
Windows 95 (OSR2), Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows Me users can obtain OpenGL drivers by any of the below methods.
- If your video card supports OpenGL, the OpenGL drivers for the video card are likely available for download on the video card manufacturer's website. A list of video card driver pages is available in our index of video card drivers.
macOS
OpenGL is included with macOS 9 and newer. The latest updated drivers can be installed by performing a system software update.
If a different video card is placed into your PowerMac G4, iMac, iBook, MacBook, or PowerBook computer, additional drivers and support for OpenGL may be required. Links to many video card drivers are listed in our index of video card drivers.
Linux
- OpenGL is a Linux system component and should be included with Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, and Caldera.
- OpenGL hardware support for video cards may need to be obtained from the video card manufacturer's driver site. Links to video card manufacturers driver site is on our video card drivers page.
Legacy versions of Microsoft Windows
Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 both come bundled with OpenGL v1.1 libraries.