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May 11th, 2005 at 8:43am

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Hello! I´ts a strange thing that happend to loads of people, but i´d like to know why.
In some games we have to take the hardware acell. if we want to have decent FPS and sound.
We know that there is loads for diferent hardware and they all work diferently but why this happends.
Many thanks
 
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Reply #1 - May 11th, 2005 at 5:54pm

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Grammer and good sentence structure goes a long way.

Let me see if I can understand:
Your asking why people must turn on hardware acceleration?

Because todays CPU's can't handle the load of rendering gfx in addition to sound, physics, windows, etc. So, the gfx rendering is sent to a specific piece of hardware so the CPU can process other data, the GPU (located on a video card). Without hardware acceleration, the CPU handles everything, bogging it down by a considerable amount.

In addition, some gfx features can't be rendered by the CPU (which uses software rendering if hardware acceleration is turned off in dxdiag) such as pixel shaders.
 

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Reply #2 - May 13th, 2005 at 6:43am

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Im very sorry about the grammar and sentence and i know that i haven`t explain myself in a very english way.And for that im sorry i wil try to explain better this time.
O que acontece é que o direct x por vezes tem influencia na maneira como os jogos decorrem e o que me deixa um pouco confuso é porque é que por vezes tem que se tirar a aceleração do hardware para que o son e os graficos decorram em condiçôes.
This is the problem i have, and i know that there are many Portuguese that have a very good grammar but i try my best.Once again many thanks.
 
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