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I feel like be cheated by google when I bought Nexus 9:(

It seems as though begging is the only way to get Google to stand by their product. We've got memory leaks out the wazoo, and the lack of openGL 4.4+. Coming from the TF201 I purchased years ago (as an early adapter), I had high hopes for a Nexus device. Don't let me down, Google! Add the libraries needed for openGL.

Get this fixed for this premium tablet

What the hell is wrong with you Google?  Nobody wants your android garbage extension pack.  Give us the features we want, and stop making yourself, and nvidia look bad with your shenanigans.  So many people are going to suffer Tegra Compability issues because of missing OpenGl contexts that the hardware supports.  Fix this Google, or I will make sure nobody I know buys an N9.

Get this fixed or plain and simple your tablet will be returned.

This needs to be fixed. Seriously,programming with such limits is beyond annoying.

Need to play trine 2

So I need it now!!

Trine 2 and we are golden!

I would like to see OpenGL support as well.

Please stop crippling the Nexus 9 just to have parity with other devices that use a different SoC.

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I just hope they will add 4.4+ support in 5.1 lollipop. If not, I guess I'll have to return my n9

Please unleash the full power of this great tablet and don't cripple it by leaving out OpenGL.

Somebody really need's to look at this.

Do it google

This needs to be done soon Google. We were promised advanced graphics capabilities at launch.

I purchased the Nexus 9 specifically because of the advanced graphics features of the Tetra K1 processor advertised by Nvidia. The removal of desktop GL 4.4+ and cuda when supported by the hardware and preexisting libraries that would be trivial to include in the Nexus 9 images is a slap in the face to all who purchased an N9. Please allow and include these features in the future.

Very disappointed that the new nexus 9 tablet doesn't support the latest opengl version. I waited for this instead of buying the nvidia shield tablet, but now I don't know if this was a wise decision. Hopefully google will add support soon..

OpenGL 4.5 support is what will make me buy a Nexus 9.  Without it, I can just pick a Shield Tablet for a cheaper price.

I concur, full OpenGL 4.5 is what we expected so make it happen please Google!

I agree. this is what is missing to complete happiness and pleasure from the use of this tablet. otherwise looks like a slap in the face.

the tablet does not use 100% of the power of the GPU with opengl 3.1, I'd like to use with the latest nexus 9 opengl and see the gorgeous graphics and gaming performance

I just hope they will add 4.4+ support in 5.1 lollipop. If not, I guess I'll have to return

Please fix.

This should be beating the Nvidia Shield. Why no OPENGL 4.5!!!!!!!

Please add OGL 4.5 support! Thank you

Stop crippling your own hardware, give the Nexus 9 the love it deserves.

Please add OGL 4.5 support!

This is ridiculous OpenGL 4.5 needs o be included instead of aep

Please add OGL 4.5 support! Thank you

Do it google!

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Do it google!
I luv u google,pls opengl 4.5 for N9

Add it please. Why you don't want to make your tablet the best?

Stop crippling your own hardware, give the Nexus 9 the love it deserves.

Please add OpenGL4.5 support for Nexus 9!

Thank you.

please add opengl 4.5, to expand the power of the tablet!

Ok Google let us do it

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OGL 4,5!!! Otherwise no Nexus 9

Would be nice to add support.

Please support OpenGL 4.5 on the Nexus 9.

Ok Google let us do it

Add OpenGL4.5 support for Nexus 9, please!

Thank in advance!

Google you can do it. I believe ^^

I support you
Thanks for doing it

I think this would be great

Stop looking for your own grave google and fix this!

Add it Google pls.

Google dooooo this pls. I kmow you can do it.

Please add this google, you guys need to unleash the power of the Nexus 9.

Please add support for OpenGL 4.5!

Please add OpenGL 4.5 to the Nexus 9 Google!

Please Google!

Super please 4.5 support!

Add it,pleasae

Come on google add support opengl 4.5 & i will buy it come on.

Adding it will also make android stronger as well as google.
please add it.

Please add it Google..

Please fix this

Please dont let ur device be beaten by the shield tablet because of a simple problem you can easily fix

fix it please

Already own my Nexus 9, but OpenGL 4.5 would be greatly appreciated !

Please add this support in stock Android. OpenGL 4.5 is the way forward and would strongly encourage game development for this platform !

Starring this is killing my inbox, how can I mute a non-google replies, so now no star, good system! I don't understand Nexus, I thought they were originally made to show producers what they can get from the OS, then came the battery then the SD slot then the budget model, what next: not keeping up to date on kernels, web view, GL... If you want to retire the nexus, then just retire it, the N6 will probably be the first nexus I won't buy, I just wish I stopped at the N5 and had bought a Shield instead of the N9.

4.5 please google

OpenGl 4.5 please Google

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Please add it! Shouldn't be too hard for you!

We really need it.

Please, add it. It will be very usefull.

We need it! you can do that google! cheers!

Bring em out!! Get that open gl 4.5!!!!

Please add this feature so more full fledged games can be enjoyed on your device

Please, OpenGL 4.5

We need OGL 4,5!

Please OGL 4.5 support will make android apps even better!

Bring em out!! Get that open gl 4.5!!!!

I'm sure Google will change this but the sooner the better! You did great with the nexus 9 but such little issues keep people away from it and the tablet deserves definitely attention because it has great potential. It just needs to be unleashed :)
Please Google add support for the desktop open gl!

Considering goat simulator lags, this will be an improvement

We need OGL 4,5

We need OGL 4,5!

Please, OpenGL 4.5

Google, I'm a nexus fanboy to the highest degree, and having bought both the new 6 and 9, you already have my cash. Please do right by all that continue to stand by your Dev and support 4.5.

Open GL 4.5 pls

Please, OpenGL 4.5

We need OGL 4,5!

Please Google un-cripple my crippled Nexus 9.

Should have been there at launch. Please update quick Google!

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Please let this happen!

Add support Plz

Just got a Nexus 9 because I like android. For a tablet that's hardware-wise inferior in just about every way to the Ipad Air 2 it should at least support OpenGl 4.5...

Get her done

OpenGL 4.5 please

Just some minor information for the individuals at Google who don't want this feature on their tablet.
There is one game from a professional game development studio that does games on the desktop. They've ported their application from the desktop to mobiles and require the additional features that the OpenGL featureset provides.
This application is Trine 2 and only runs on Nvidia K1 devices, except for the Nexus 9 of course because Google decided they don't need OpenGL support.

Another application that doesn't require OpenGL but definitely has gets performance improvements from it is the Dolphin Emulator. This application can use the additional features that OpenGL provides over OpenGL ES in order to lower CPU overhead and in return raises performance of the application.

Links to both applications in the play store are here.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frozenbyte.Trine2
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dolphinemu.dolphinemu

Why include the nvidia chip at all if they're not going to exploit all of its features?  Google really can't into hardware.

Please add support for OGL 4.5 Google. Please dont make me regret buying the N9 and not the Shield ...

Add opengl 4.5 support

Add opengl 4.5 support

Add OpenGl 4.5 for the N9, seriously Google , your N9 has the same K1 processor than the shield it's not even a hardware issue !

Please add support, I really regret getting a n9 as I was sold by the belief it had a desktop class gpu in it that would support incredible graphics but you've crippled it just to appease qualcomm.

Add OpenGL 4.5 i am a hardcore gamer!!!

Come on team!! Let's blow Apple's socks off!

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plz add OpenGL 4.5 support!

I was disappointed a few years ago by the old Nexus 7, and now I've been disappointed (in the same way, no less) by the Nexus 9. Another reason for me to call Android a joke.

Add 4.5 opengl plz

I too have an N9 and a Shield tablet.  It's amazing how much more the Shield can do since it is not nuetered to appease Qualcomm.

Please unlock the true capabilities of this flagship device.

Please add 4.5 opengl.

damned fix it. dont you realize you cant unleash all the K1 ppwer?

It's crazy...my first nexus...embarassing

Why wouldn't you add OpenGL 4.5 support if the device can handle it?  That's embarrassing Google!  Come on now...

Please add OGL 4.5 support!

Pls add OGL 4.5 !!!

Google, come on, please fix this and add OpenGL 4.5 support!

Please add OpenGL 4.5 support!

I'm really surprised at the fact this is not already supported out of the box.. Why?

Add support google

Why doesn't my Nexus 9 support OpenGL 4.5? It has a 64bit Tegra K1 chip!!
Please Google, add support for OpenGL 4.5 in the Nexus 9.

please add support for openGL 4.5

How are developers supposed to test their OpenGL 4.5 apps, when the reference platform (Nexus 9) doesn't even support it. C'mon Google, support your developers.

please add support for openGL 4.5

I understand you want to stop the fragmentation of Android,Google.But Nexus 9 has a powerful 64bit Tegra K1 chip!!!! How the hell that it doesn't have support OpenGL 4.5 Support?

Support for openGL 4.5 please

OpenGL 4.5 support would be nice!

Need OpenGL 4.5 to use my Nexus 9 for my research and show awesome demos!!

OpenGL 4.5 and CUDA support would be amazing. would make this a great tablet for my robotics work.

You can do it google! we believe you will!trine 2,half life and other future games!

please unleash the nexus9's graphic potential we payd for whennwe purchased it for its insane hardware specs and add opengl 4.5 support

please add support for openGL 4.5

excuseme can u add openGL 4.5 !!!

I thing u forget that

Add opengl 4.5 support

Very disappointed with poor reaction to this issue and overall decision not to support GL and Cuda out of the box. I've contacted someone from Nvidia regarding this,  they have nothing to do with it so it's a purely google's decision. This whole story is very disappointed mostly for developers who are willing to use GL extensions since those features on OES are yet limited comparing to what we have on GL. AEP isn't something you can simply par with GL 4.4/4.5 and yet OES/AEP doesn't support features like base_vertex which just got approved as an OES extension which basically means that Khronos as a group supports the extension and urges companies to support it and most likely it'll be merged in to the standard. I can only assume that Google is waiting for the hype train to die down a bit and then they will invalidate the issue. Hope I'm wrong hence waiting for reply regarding this

Pls, I want to play tegra games!

@Google rep, any comments?

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can we get this added please?

Add opengl 4.5 support

Please Google add support for 4.5

pls

It's a shame to not include support to it.

Add opengl 4.5 support for the great nexus 9... This is the best android tablet thet you ever did... You must add this support!!!

please add opengl 4.5 support for nexus 9.

Please add suport for opengl 4.5

Please add support. It is important for future development

Google, please fix this and add OpenGL 4.5 support!

Please add OpenGl 4.5 support

Do it google! please  

Please google we need OpenGL 4.5

I think it's very important to unleash to full power of Nexus 9
Thanks in advance

Please add suport for opengl 4.5

Fascism will not pass!!!

Please Open gl 4.5

Please add support for OpenGL 4.5

Please add support for opengl 4.5 and unleash the power of this tablet!

Please add support for OpenGL 4.5

Google, please fix this and add OpenGL 4.5 support!

Google, please add support for OpenGL 4.5, thank-you

Google, please add support for OpenGL 4.5, thank-you

Shame that they treat the "Flagship" devices in this way!

Please.

Please add it! Shouldn't be too hard for you!

つ ◕_◕ つ GIVE OGL 4.5!!

add ogl 4.5

Add openGL 4.5

Please google we need OpenGL 4.5 for the extra juice that it has makes. Thanks.

Plz this is unormal , now the devices can use it but the software is downgraded omg

OpenGL 4.5 is necessary.

I did some preliminary performance benchmarks on the Nexus 9 with my application.
An interesting feature of the Nexus 9 having disabled desktop OpenGL is that the video drivers still have all of the function pointers of the desktop GL functions.
These function pointers in particular can still be pulled from the video driver by calling eglGetProcAddress.

There's a limit to how many you can pull due to Android's EGL layer having an issue of only being capable of pulling 256 "untracked" function pointers due to a statically sized array in their library.
This issue can be seen at https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=80882

As we all know, the Nvidia video driver was originally a desktop GL video driver and has gained support for OpenGL ES through the years. This is a particular thing for us where the driver is first architected around desktop GL features.
A quirk of the video driver is that when running an OpenGL ES EGL profile, you can still call desktop OpenGL functions and they will work to some extent. Basically if you aren't requiring features from desktop GLSL shaders then a function call will most likely work.

My application/game is a high performance mainly dual threaded application that will take 100% of two cores of a device. One thread does all of the logic, while another thread does all the video rendering based decoding and logic.
This "video thread" can take advantage of desktop OpenGL features to increase performance. In particular there are two features that increase performance. These two extensions are "GL_ARB_buffer_storage" and "GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex."
These are the two main desktop GL extensions my application can use, not the only ones, but the main ones that have the most impact. These two OpenGL extensions are nice since they allow persistently mapped buffers, and using that mapped buffer as a ring buffer when rendering index buffers with base_vertex.

Using these two extensions in conjunction with one another lower API call overhead, and increase efficiency of the rendering. In particular this lowers CPU usage wasted in the video driver, and allows us to either increase performance of the rendering in my application, or increase battery life.

I chose to go down the performance route. Since this lowers CPU usage in my "video thread" we can better spend our time in other places that require a lot of CPU performance.

I promised a preliminary benchmark of myself using these two features force enabled.
So a particular result without these features enabled is 21-23 FPS ingame. The scene is quite dynamic, so it is difficult to pin an exact number on to it.
With these two extensiosn force enabled by forcing the application to think they are available and pulling the function pointers. The same seen runs at a full 30FPS, which is full speed due to that particular scene having a 30FPS performance cap.

Another quick result. One scene without the forced enabling of the two features runs at 45-50FPS, but with them enabled the scene runs at a full 60FPS. Once again, this is the scene's full speed so that is what it should run at, it could most likely run faster if the speed limiter was taken off. This isn't something I've tested though.

So overall even with only two of the "major" performance features, the difference is quite amazing. There are many more that my application could use, but they can't work around Google forcibly disabling creating a desktop OpenGL EGL context.
Hopefully Google can rectify their issue without too much fuss.

Unleash the power of K1! I support the effort to get full openGL working on the Nexus 9

We all want this. Come on google. Make this tablet special.

Please add opengl 4.5

Please add opengl 4.4 and CUDA

No reason to leave out opengl 4.5 on this tablet.

Please enable opengl 4.5 on my Nexus 9 ! This will participate in making Android an even better software ecosystem by allowing game ports to it from other platforms more easily.

Please add opengl 4.5 and CUDA

Please add OpenGL 4.5 support. There's no reason for not having it.