Emmanuel Kanter wrote:
Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
Though I am unfamiliar with the book I can still make on suggestion.
Try setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to windib before
running any examples. From the dos prompt:
set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib
Lenard
for my complete confusion, this worked.
where can I read more about it, so I'll understand what I just did?
Thanks!
Emi
By default Pygame 1.8.1 uses DirectX graphics for Windows XP and
earlier. What you did was disable the DirectX driver. The windib driver
uses regular screen device bitmap operations instead. The SDL developers
have known of DirectX problems for several years now, so made windib the
default. But Pygame 1.8.1 overrides that for better performance on older
computers. It sets SDL_VIDEODRIVER to directx at startup, unless the
environment variable has already a value. I only guessed this may be the
problem since I have just finished debugging a DirectX problem with the
F10 function key. The information on this is scattered. Some postings
are on the Pygame mailing list. Some are in the SDL mailing list:
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org . There is also an
SVN log message in the SDL repository explaining the switch to windib
because of DirectDraw and DirectInput problems. Finally, an unofficial
list of SDL, and therefore Pygame, environment variables can be found
here: http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org .
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