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Does Home Basic support hardware-accelerated OpenGL

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There's some confusion over whether Home Basic will run OpenGL

applications using hardware acceleration since Home Basic does not

support Aero. Based on my limited knowledge of Vista architecture, I

would expect that with the correct ICD, hardware-accelerated OpenGL

applications would run perfectly fine on Home Basic.

 

Can anyone provide a definitive answer on this?

 

Thanks.

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    "Clint Weisbrod" wrote:

    > There's some confusion over whether Home Basic will run OpenGL

    > applications using hardware acceleration since Home Basic does not

    > support Aero. Based on my limited knowledge of Vista architecture, I

    > would expect that with the correct ICD, hardware-accelerated OpenGL

    > applications would run perfectly fine on Home Basic.

    >

    > Can anyone provide a definitive answer on this?

     

    In Windows Vista Home Basic Edition you have a theme called Windows Vista

    Standard. This mode is a variation of Windows Aero without the glass effects,

    window animations, and other advanced graphical effects such as Windows Flip

    3D. Like Windows Aero, it uses the Desktop Window Manager and so it's fully

    3D-GPU rendered, and has generally the same video hardware requirements as

    Windows Aero

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