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what happened with these VESA "2d accelerated" API that was on every SVGA card in the middle of the 90s ? They make a huge difference and was well supported on

• pcwalton 3y ago
  That stuff has been obsolete for quite a while as the general 3D capabilities are more than enough to saturate all the GPU's memory bandwidth.
  • zozbot234 3y ago
    If it's a VESA standard and still supported it might be useful as a fallback for hardware that doesn't have its own driver. Edit: But actually, I couldn't find references to anything similar besides VBE/AF which even when current got almost no support directly in hardware, so folks had to resort to hardware-specific DOS TSR's. I'm not sure if there's anything newer than that.
• soundarana 3y ago
  The basic display interface used by UEFI and low level boot loaders these days it's called GOP - Graphics Output Protocol. It replaced VESA.
• rjsw 3y ago
  GPU manufacturers stopped putting 2D functionality in their chips.