Drop the PFD_GENERIC_ACCELERATED flag?

[Vijay Kiran Kamuju]

well my mail may be off-topic/irrelevant
please have a look at
http://www.opengl.org/resources/faq/technical/mswindows.htm

(faq no 5.040)
thanks,
vijay
On 11/16/05, Peter Beutner <p.beutner at gmx.net> wrote:
> At the moment wine always set the PFD_GENERIC_ACCELERATED flag in X11DRV_DescribePixelFormat.
> SeriousSam uses this flag to determine if the pixelformat is hardware accelerated.
> If the flag is set it is interpreted as _no_ hardware acceleration available.
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> Unfortunately  MSDN isn't really clear about what that flag really means:
> it describes it as: "The pixel format is supported by a device driver that accelerates the
> generic implementation."
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> After reading [1] I think it should be like that instead:
> If PFD_GENERIC_ACCELERATED is set the pixelformat is partially accelerated
> by the device driver and some parts are just software fallbacks.
> If PFD_GENERIC_FORMAT is set everything is done in software.
> And only if none of both is set it is fully accelerated in hardware.
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> Is there anything similiar in GLX(full vs. partial accelerated) so we could set that flag
> according to that? Or, if not, can we just drop it? Imo it's better always off than always on.
>
> Thanks
> Peter
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> [1] http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/S2085.aspx
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