This software utility analyzes your PC’s hardware and software, and provides you with details regarding your graphics renderer, such as the DirectX version, the shader model, the OpenGL version and driver version, as well as the renderer model and adapter RAM. Not only does this application display information about your OpenGL 3D accelerator, it also allows you to explore and view details about the extensions, while offering PC experts the choice of disabling them. To make sure your PC is fully equipped to run your chosen programs, you can give OpenGL Extension Viewer a try, so as to avoid wasting time downloading and installing programs incompatible with your computer.
When running certain types of games or even some sophisticated screensavers, you might get an error message from Windows stating that the machine cannot render the said applications.