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Certainly OpenGL and DirectX acceleration was a thing in Windows 9x, kind of missing the point.
by pjmlp 3mo ago
Certainly OpenGL and DirectX acceleration was a thing in Windows 9x, kind of missing the point.
- nananana9 3mo agoVideocards of the era only did exclusive fullscreen - you could not for example use OpenGL to render your windowed application's UI, that was all software.
- pjmlp 3mo agoMy graduation thesis was porting a particle visualisation engine from NeXTSTEP into Windows 9x.
- kg 3mo agoI don't think this is true? I remember successfully using OpenGL and Direct3D acceleration in windowed mode on 9x devices. Are you thinking of the add-on 3D accelerator cards that did VGA pass-through from your 2D accelerator? It might've been true for them...