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

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Funny. The first item in the SDL FAC* says, "SDL takes advantage of 
DirectX hardware acceleration when it is available, but falls back to 
the standard Win32 services if DirectX is not installed". And the SDL 
1.2.12 configure script shows DirectX enabled by default. So it appears 
to have been re-activated (or their documentation is outdated). But I 
can always add a build flag to force DirectX support. SDL 1.2.13 is out 
so I should try building it anyway.

Lenard

* http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php?action=listentries&category=4#38


Brian Fisher wrote:
> The default was changed in SDL 1.2.10, and has been windib since.
> http://libsdl.org/release/changes-1.2.html
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> "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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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Lenard Lindstrom
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