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Vincent Janelle (malokai@gildea.net)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:41:12 -0800 (PST)
Uhm.
DirectX does this stuff by essentially taking over control of the video
device.
OpenGL does this via the FS(Full screen) extension.
In the case of opengl all it does it make a window without borders and
slams it into the upper left corner(at least, on my tnt it does) and asks
for the resolution to be dropped to X and be positioned over it. I can
tell because I sometimes have applications that are "always on top"(ie,
winamp) that sometimes poke their little edges into the side.
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
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> On 19 Jan 99, at 14:32, Curt Sampson wrote:
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> > Windows does now; just put the X server `away' for a bit while you
> > give the game `direct' access to whatever it needs (it takes over
> > the entire screen)--in fact, you *must* do this for current 3D
> > cards--and then when the came is done, put the video card back into
> > the mode it was in before and let the X server at it again.
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> what do you mean by "must do this?"
> since you can easily run most 3d cards in a window, you do not need to
> run it in full screen mode, although you will get better frame rates and
> perfomance that way...
>
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