Re: [pygame] Ann: Pygame 1.8 SVN snapshot as Win32 installers

["Brian Fisher" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The default was changed in SDL 1.2.10, and has been windib since.
http://libsdl.org/release/changes-1.2.html
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"The "windib" video driver is the default now, to prevent problems
with certain laptops, 64-bit Windows, and Windows Vista. The DirectX
driver is still available, and can be selected by setting the
environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER to "directx"."

On Jan 26, 2008 9:06 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi René,
>
> The SDL documentation says directx is the default. I don't know why
> windib was chosen instead for Pygame. I've been using the directx
> default since I started building SDL 1.2.12 myself. So I see no problem
> leaving it that way.
>
> Lenard
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> René Dudfield wrote:
> > wonderful :)
> >
> > I gave it a bit of a test run on an old XP machine and it seems to go fine :)
> >
> > I ran a bunch of the example programs, and also a few pygame games
> > like solar wolf, and zanthor etc.
> >
> > What do you think about making the directx driver the default again?
> > Rather than windb?  I noticed both solar wolf and zanthor ran faster
> > on my machine with directx.
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> >
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