Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/04/20:25:38
On 5 Jul 98 at 0:17, Andrew R. Gillett wrote:
> What video driver is better than VESA 2 (other than VBE/AF, perhaps)?
> Maybe you're talking about the standard specific card drivers, but I've
> found them to be no faster, and often less reliable.
They're faster than VESA 1 -- isn't that the point? Being no faster
isn't a problem -- so long as they're fast enough for your game. You
shouldn't really assume that nothing better than VESA 2 will ever be
available. I was really referring to VBE/AF and the built in chipset
drivers, yes. I don't know what VESA 3 is, but Allegro supports that
too.
> It is -much- slower in 256 colours because of all the colour conversion
> that needs to be done. And now that I've done realtime transparencies in
> it, it wouldn't work in 256 colours anyway.
OK. The conversion would only be necessary on startup in most cases
(as I said, Allegro will convert all of your images on loading), but
you'd obviously be causing more conversions later.
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