shade Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Hello, I see drivers releases as OEM and as OGL ... anyone can clarify the difference between the two? Thanks. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer - someone like Dell, HP, or Alien. OGL stands for Open Graphics Language - a method for creating and displaying graphics that predates Direct3D and is still used by many game developers. An OEM driver was published by the equipment manufacturer, not by nVidia. An OGL driver contains optimizations for OGL game (and other graphics) development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shade Posted August 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 (edited) Thanks LSudlow. But when on this site there is a release of drivers marked as OEM I wonder, what manufacturer is releasing them? Let's for example take the drivers released here, who is the manufacturer? Thanks. Steve Edited August 21, 2008 by shade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Ah! Excellent question! :) The OEM drivers aren't actually developed by the manufactures themselves. Nvidia creates them and customizes the installation infs for each company. When you see a driver like this one, it usually means you'll find (inside) a folder full of OEM infs intended for use by the various manufacturers. As a side note, those infs aren't much use to most people, but they're fun for us to browse through, looking for new switches and settings that might be useful for our customized infs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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