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diff --git a/help/rest/dX-window.txt b/help/rest/dX-window.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e7ba6e --- /dev/null +++ b/help/rest/dX-window.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +.. _dX-window: + +.. index:: + pair: driver; DirectX windowed + pair: platform; Windows + +DirectX windowed driver +======================= + +This is a driver for Windows 9x and NT. It is new since version 3.1 and because +of some oddities of Windows API and kludges in DirectX it may be rather +unstable. Please report all bugs. In case of problems you could use the DOS +version of XaoS instead. + +The DirectX driver is an alternative to the windowed :ref:`win32 driver +<win32>`. If you have DirectX installed, this driver is used by default. It has +almost the same behaviour as the :ref:`win32 driver <win32>` so please read its +documentation for more details. The only difference should be the display +speed. + +The driver supports only hicolor and truecolor modes. There is no support for +256 and 16 color modes because of palette collision problems. The win32 driver +will be used in these cases by default, so this should cause no problems. + +If you are experiencing problems with this driver, you might want to use the +:ref:`win32 driver <win32>` by default; to do this, use the -driver win32 +command line option. + +DirectX driver was written by Jan Hubicka, Jan Olderdissen and Pavel Tzekov, +1999. |