>> In this case, I think the suggestion Nobody wrote out would already
>> allow a check to make sure - failing an extension return, check the
>> OpenGL version and variant, and should it be appropriate, it's worth a

> I think the best/simplest check is to try
> and create a non-power-of-2 texture and
> see if it fails. This is similar to using
> a proxy texture in OpenGL to check the
> hardware capabilities.

> OTOH you have to decide what to do when it
> fails. Will you just abort? Will you have
> a load of angry customers?

> I say it's better to regard non-PO2 as
> a luxury. Write your program as if it's
> not available. Use it to improve image
> quality and/or memory usage when it is.

> Resizing images as you load them from
> disk is no big deal. It should add no
> more than a couple of hours development
> time. Not doing it seems like incredible
> laziness to me.