Alternate for DirectX

infocom-solutions — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:31:40 GMT

Hi,

Is their any alternative tool for DirectX which is better or Equivalent to it.

Cheers

Pavi

Re: Alternate for DirectX

7oby — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:41:10 GMT

pavihunt@rediffmail.com:
Is their any alternative tool for DirectX which is better or Equivalent to it.

What kind of tool do you mean?

DirectX is a collection of libraries to help programmers build applications independent of the actual hardware and on a higher level of abstraction than the hardware itself provides. DirectX comprises Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound and more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX

Since this is a graphics forum I assume you refer to Direct3D and there is indeed an alternative, which is called OpenGL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct3D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opengl

With both libraries roughly the same can be accomplished and Intel drivers actually support both. Developers either choose on of them (e.g. using OpenGL it's easier to port this application to Linux) or even support both. For example download Google Earth - free version:
http://earth.google.com/

In the startmenu you can then find two launch entries: One for DirectX and one for OpenGL. Try both and try to find the differences.

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