What is DirectDraw?
DirectDraw is a dedicated 2D functional interface that allows direct access to video memory, hardware overlays, hardware blitters, and page flipping. DirectDraw has been dropped since DirectX8 but can be accessed in DirectX9 by using LPDIRECTDRAW7 Surfaces as DirectX is backward compatible. It’s video memory manager can manipulate video memory with ease, taking full advantage of the blitting and color decompression capabilities of different types of display adapters.
Related Questions
- When I try to run Tender Loving Care , I get an error box stating "Can lock primary DirectDraw surface" or "DirectDraw Initialization failed (88760078)". Is there anything I can do?
- Why does my full screen DirectDraw application drop frames at times, displaying a black screen momentarily?
- Does the Display-to-Go Video card support DirectDraw Video Acceleration?
