Open-GL Stars is a benchmark/demo program the author has written to test his Open-GL and Win32 programming skills. It was meant to be a small project to test some nice Open-GL features but developed into a fully featured application.

Main Features

easy to use BeOS-like user interface

fully customizable screen resolution and bit depth

full-screen or window rendering

adjustable texture filtering mode:

bilinear/bilinear+mipmaps/trilinear

adjustable gamma setting

MAPI support

many different parameters to play with (press h to see on-screen help)

all parameters are accessible through easy to use menu and stored in one .ini file

many statistics (frames per second, polygons per second, polygons per frame...)

benchmark mode (2000 frames, animation updated by frame - you will see identical frames regardless to your machine performance, only time of
nice Open-GL effects (like lens flare and some nice particles)

screenshot feature (using Targa file format) - just press s

detailed report of program run and benchmark results are displayed in two separate windows