[SDL] Follow-up on SDL_VideoModeOK behaviour

[Simon Roby]

On 12/6/06, Jan Willem Penterman <jw at shapers.nl> wrote:
> Just a follup-up the my previous question:
>
> I'm on Windows, and I found that the behaviour I described is only occuring
> using the "windib" driver. Using the "directx" driver, the call(s) behave as
> expected.

I'd guess it's possibly because the windib driver is unable to
properly select another video mode than the current desktop.

Anyway, you should always use the desktop depth when calling
SDL_SetVideoMode (ie. by setting bpp to 0). Anything else is likely to
create nasty overhead.
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- SR