[SDL] How to enable 2D hardware acceleration on Windows?

[Sam Lantinga]

> Ah, that's quite an old version. But I thought DX was quite backwards
> compatible.

Mostly. :)

> Even so, DX appears to be slower rather than faster already and I
> don't know why.

On DX9 and above, I believe the 2D interface is emulated over 3D.

> Note the 2D in the title. ;)

Yes, I'm just talking about the underlying driver architecture.  It's
still a 2D API.

> When can a stable release of 1.3 be expected?

Hopefully sometime this year.  I have one more major revision of the
blitting system to work on, and we have a number of students joining
us for the Google Summer of Code, so by the end of the year I hope to
be iterating on release candidates.

You can check out a pre-release version here:
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3.zip

See ya!
	-Sam Lantinga, Lead Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment