[SDL] Optimal mode from SDL_GetVideoMode

Olivier Delannoy olivier.delannoy at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 02:03:58 PDT 2006


The best mode really depends on the driver you are using. Under X11
for example you only have software surface.

On 10/5/06, Peter Mulholland <darkmatter at freeuk.com> wrote:
> Hello benang,
>
> Thursday, October 5, 2006, 5:16:57 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Hi, I've recently tried to find the optimal mode from SDL_GetVideoMode.
> > The result is all the accelerations(hw_available, blit_hw, blit_hw_CC,
> > blit_hw_A, blit_sw, blit_sw_CC, blit_sw_A, blit_fill) are valued 0. So, is
> > it better to use the flag SDL_HWSURFACE or SDL_SWSURFACE? What is the
> > optimal flag if I wanted to use either colorkey or alpha blending? And why
> > is the video_mem value always returned zero?
>
> On what platform?
>
>
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>  Peter                            mailto:darkmatter at freeuk.com
>
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