How good is GDI for making games?
How good is GDI for making games?
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It can be if the driver implements it - but it is also perfectly possible to write a driver that performs only the two required BitCopy operations, and punt everything else back to the GDI software solution. [You also need to "initialize" the driver and close it and a few other simple functions to make a complete but minimal windows graphics driver].
However, I do admit that GDI is not necessarily HIGHLY accelerated in modern graphics drivers, because it's generally "fast enough" through the a trivial implementation that implements many of the basic operations with HW acceleration, but not all of them.
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Mats
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