W3bbo said:elmer said:*snip*But what you've just written contradicts what I've been saying: OS X provides a visual experience virtually identical to both GPU-accelerated and non-accelerated computers, even on Snow Leopard 10.6; despite that all Apple computers sold in the past six years have had accelerated GPUs.
I'm not aware of anyone installing Windows 7 on a computer older than 5 years will get adequate performance.
I think it comes down to the whole backwards-compatibility thing again.
Question: Direct3D provides an exclusivity mode that disables Aero 3D out of necessity, but I don't believe the same thing happens on OS X. What's up with that?
Question: Direct3D provides an exclusivity mode that disables Aero 3D out of necessity, but I don't believe the same thing happens on OS X. What's up with that?
I believe the Aero being disabled is due to apps making calls directly to DirectDraw and is incompatible with the desktop compositor, hence, windowing is switched to basic mode, and you lose Aero. And it has nothing to do with 3D
