diff --git a/dlls/wined3d/directx.c b/dlls/wined3d/directx.c
index a4e4a0c0044a72ef93f04a167a9d12c78250c563..3ca389e0363880fde3718ae533c953cbd364c7ce 100644
--- a/dlls/wined3d/directx.c
+++ b/dlls/wined3d/directx.c
@@ -6581,16 +6581,16 @@ static DWORD get_max_gl_version(const struct wined3d_gl_info *gl_info, DWORD fla
 {
     const char *gl_vendor, *gl_renderer;
 
-    if (wined3d_settings.explicit_gl_version || (flags & WINED3D_PIXEL_CENTER_INTEGER))
+    if (wined3d_settings.explicit_gl_version)
         return wined3d_settings.max_gl_version;
 
     gl_vendor = (const char *)gl_info->gl_ops.gl.p_glGetString(GL_VENDOR);
     gl_renderer = (const char *)gl_info->gl_ops.gl.p_glGetString(GL_RENDERER);
     if (!gl_vendor || !gl_renderer
             || wined3d_guess_card_vendor(gl_vendor, gl_renderer) == HW_VENDOR_NVIDIA)
-        return wined3d_settings.max_gl_version;
+        return MAKEDWORD_VERSION(1, 0);
 
-    return MAKEDWORD_VERSION(4, 4);
+    return wined3d_settings.max_gl_version;
 }
 
 static BOOL wined3d_adapter_init(struct wined3d_adapter *adapter, UINT ordinal, DWORD wined3d_creation_flags)
diff --git a/dlls/wined3d/wined3d_main.c b/dlls/wined3d/wined3d_main.c
index 56fae6b3f9645274c730cd0b9712eeac48fd228e..e322b4de0744675315f4be98039f45b3f99f224e 100644
--- a/dlls/wined3d/wined3d_main.c
+++ b/dlls/wined3d/wined3d_main.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ struct wined3d_settings wined3d_settings =
 {
     TRUE,           /* Multithreaded CS by default. */
     FALSE,          /* explicit_gl_version */
-    MAKEDWORD_VERSION(1, 0), /* Default to legacy OpenGL */
+    MAKEDWORD_VERSION(4, 4), /* Default to OpenGL 4.4 */
     TRUE,           /* Use of GLSL enabled by default */
     ORM_FBO,        /* Use FBOs to do offscreen rendering */
     PCI_VENDOR_NONE,/* PCI Vendor ID */