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    1. 09-14-2009 01:26 AM #1
      Needcatscan
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      Drawing with GDI+ in C#

      So I've been writing an online role-playing-real-time-strategy game (think of the SNES Final Fantasies having a love-child with World Of Warcraft) and it's actually coming along very well. I decided I didn't want to use any third-party code (such as XNA) and I was too lazy to learn directx, so that left me with GDI+.

      This works just fine, except I can't find a way to get GDI+ to use video RAM; it only uses system memory which makes it quite slow on older machines.

      Does anyone know how to force VRAM usage or any other pointers to this problem?
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    2. 09-14-2009 12:23 PM #2
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      To use VRAM, you have to use a graphics package, there is no way around it. DirectX or OpenGL is the only way to do it.
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