Well you got me wondering now on what I worked with, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw seems to say DirectDr

Well you got me wondering now on what I worked with, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw seems to say DirectDraw was hardware-accelerated too. I guess the point is that there are and have been for a long time GPU accelerated 2D API's in DirectX land.