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This assumes that memory for the system and the graphics card is shared.
by _nalply 2y ago
This assumes that memory for the system and the graphics card is shared.
- kevingadd 2y agoYeah, Windows in this era already had the concept of bitmaps in system memory and bitmaps in device memory, so the desktop background could have been decompressed into GPU memory and then thrown away to free up CPU-side RAM. Not sure whether it would actually do that though.
- numpad0 2y agoOr, that desktop rendering is not GPU accelerated.