glCapsViewer

More often than not, before installing a video game that has been recently released or an advanced graphic editor on your computer, then there are chances that you are looking over the system requirements first. While you can easily learn details about your processor and video card, some software solutions require you have additional resources, such as a specific version of OpenGL.

glCapsViewer is a tool dedicated to displaying the OpenGL hardware capabilities of your system as well as the primary video rendered or graphics card.

The application does not require installation or configuration, but rather you can start using it as soon as you download it to your computer. You will be happy to learn that the tool only takes a few seconds to analyze the system and provide you with detailed information of the OpenGL version, operating system and renderer.

The GUI is comprised of two tabs, one of which displays the aforementioned information while the other packs additional data such as extensions available, compressed text formats as well as internal formats if they are available. The tool does not include advanced settings, but allow you to connect anonymously via a proxy server.

It is worth mentioning that the tool enables you to save the current configuration as an XML file that you can use for comparison reasons later on. Speaking of comparing, it is worth mentioning that the tool provides direct access to a public database where you can upload your system statistics.

As you would expect, you can perform advanced searches for extensions and other configurations and compare different reports., such as, you could easily find out more about the changes between two driver versions or how certain graphic cards behave with the newly implemented changes, for instance.

Whether you would like to learn more about the OpenGL version you have on your computer, compare devices reports or are looking for a way to lend a hand with OpenGL developers, then GlCapsViewer might come in handy.