[SDL] Confusing results with SDL_GetVideoMode?

[Bill Kendrick]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:02:03AM +0100, Peter Mulholland wrote:
> Hello Simon,
> 
> Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 12:57:38 AM, you wrote:
> 
> SR> That's not it. windib is now default because a growing number of video
> SR> drivers have broken DirectDraw support (remember, DirectDraw is an
> SR> obsolete API since DirectX 8), and the SDL devs decided that
> SR> reliability was a bigger priority than performance.
> 
> Care to name some?

Everyone using Tux Paint on various Win32 versions who had one of the
following issues:

  * Weird mouse positioning issues in fullscreen
  * Weird mouse positioning issues with tablet PCs
  * Monitor sync problems in fullscreen
  * Crashes (or system reboots) on startup

...were able to solve those issues by swithcing to WinDIB.


(As a strange datapoint, many desktop users were mentioning they were on Dells.
Dunno if that matters, but I was assuming Dell was shipping broken up DX.)

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