well my mail may be off-topic/irrelevant please have a look at http://www.opengl.org/resources/faq/technical/mswindows.htm
(faq no 5.040) thanks, vijay On 11/16/05, Peter Beutner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the moment wine always set the PFD_GENERIC_ACCELERATED flag in > X11DRV_DescribePixelFormat. > SeriousSam uses this flag to determine if the pixelformat is hardware > accelerated. > If the flag is set it is interpreted as _no_ hardware acceleration available. > > Unfortunately MSDN isn't really clear about what that flag really means: > it describes it as: "The pixel format is supported by a device driver that > accelerates the > generic implementation." > > After reading [1] I think it should be like that instead: > If PFD_GENERIC_ACCELERATED is set the pixelformat is partially accelerated > by the device driver and some parts are just software fallbacks. > If PFD_GENERIC_FORMAT is set everything is done in software. > And only if none of both is set it is fully accelerated in hardware. > > Is there anything similiar in GLX(full vs. partial accelerated) so we could > set that flag > according to that? Or, if not, can we just drop it? Imo it's better always > off than always on. > > Thanks > Peter > > [1] http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/S2085.aspx > > > >