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In recent years, High-DPI displays have become common. Having a lot more pixels to display your application on seems like a simple recipe for crisper graphics but, counterintuitively, the opposite is often the case. Many applications were written without taking the DPI of displays into account...
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Probably one of the most advanced games I've tried recreating. I don't make a lot of games, but the logic here on a matrix was a little convoluted through the development stages.
What I mean by fully integrated logic is that the control itself does absolutely everything for you. You can...
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Probably one of the most advanced games I've tried recreating. I don't make a lot of games, but the logic here on a matrix was a little convoluted through the development stages.
What I mean by fully integrated logic is that the control itself does absolutely everything for you. You can...
board game
dynamic grid
event handling
game development
game logic
game over
gdi
graphics
logic class
marker management
player interaction
programming
reversi
software design
turn management
user interface
visual display
windows forms
Hello, I need help:(
My Link Removed (specs listed there. i7, 8g ram, nVidia geforce 550m with Intel HD 3000 optimus) is BSODing right after logging in. It boots fine, and I type in my password, it shows me the desktop for a bit, and around that moment I get one of the BSODs attached.
It also...
Fixes a display issue in which black lines appear in the window of an application that uses DirectX and GDI to display the window. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Fixes an issue in which GDI objects are not displayed correctly when use multiple monitors. This issue occurs when an application uses the EnumDisplayMonitors function to display the GDI objects on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server...
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Fixes an issue in which Windows crashes on a computer that uses a WDDM 1.1 graphics adapter and has multiple monitors attached. This issue occurs in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2.
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A little background for those who wondering what is Direct2D and DirectWrite Hardware Acceleration
Direct2D :
Direct2Dis a hardware-accelerated, immediate-mode, 2-D graphics API that provides high performance and high-quality rendering for 2-D geometry, bitmaps, and text. The Direct2D...
add-ons
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directwrite
firefox beta
gdi
graphics api
hardware acceleration
high quality text
mozilla firefox
opentype
performance
sub-pixel rendering
text rendering
typography
unicode support
user interface
video drivers
Sorry this is from back on March 19, 2010, but I stumbled across it and thought it was worth posting.
Microsoft is working on a patch to fix a hole in a 64-bit Windows 7 graphics display component that could be exploited to crash the system or potentially take control of the computer by...
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windows aero
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after the big discussion about the security of windows 7 , microsoft release the the first security update for windows 7 beta .
While Microsoft excluded Windows 7 from the security patching ceremony in January and in February, things went a little differently on this month's Patch Tuesday...