Is G-Force hardware accelerated?
Starting with version 3.5, G-Force uses OpenGL hardware acceleration to transfer CPU-generated frames to the screen. On Mac OS X, the 3D Graphics Architecture team headed by Geoff Stahl at Apple has provided GL_UNPACK_CLIENT_STORAGE_APPLE, allowing Mac OS X developers to very easily use CPU-side frame buffers on the GPU with astonishing speeds. Unfortunately, no such similar widely-available extension exists on Windows/wgl (and must be done on a per-vendor basis, which has not been implemented in G-Force due to complexity and PITA factors).
G-Force uses OpenGL and Direct3D to significantly accelerate graphics performance. Since both of these intimately use the computer’s graphics hardware, the overall performance (i.e. frame load) will be directly tied to your graphics hardware’s capabilities. Note that because G-Force makes light use of texture memory, the amount of graphics texture memory has no effect on performance above 128MB. That said, better-performing graphics hardware tends to ship with larger amounts of texture memory, so two tend two be correlated to one another.
