Graphic Library and market share
Sebastian Uribe <[email protected]>
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### Note: Sorry if this appears twice, i first sent it with another email address (not subscripted to the list) but it's still awaiting moderator approval ### Hi, We're making some small puzzle game for Win32 to be (hopefully) distributed online. We're currently using SDL (as we had planned to make it easily portable), but some problems with it are slowing down our development (timer granularity and slow alpha blitting mostly). So we're thinking in using DirectX for now, and later care about other platforms. I wanted to get some idea about the installed base of DirectX. I believe DX8.1 comes with Windows XP, and at least DX6 or DX7 must come with W2K. We don't care a lot about W98 right now (¿Should we?). Our programmers say DX8 will be easier to use tan DX7, but I'm worried it will restrict our market share, as we're not targeting hardcore gamers (with the latest in machine and OS). ¿What's your experience with this? Any comment will be appreciated! PD: I believe OpenGL would probably be well suited also, but the main programmer in this proyect feels more comfortable with DX. Thanks -- /// Sebastián Uribe Inmune Games [email protected] www.inmune.com.ar ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Gamedevlists-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gamedevlists-general Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=557