Why so slow

Why so slow?

Anyone who has tried a fairly graphic intensive application with GDI+ will have noticed that it's just a little slow when compared with older GDI graphics operations.

The reason for this is that GDI+ drivers do not, as yet, take advantage of hardware acceleration features built in to many of the graphics cards fitted to PC systems today.

Later versions of GDI+ will have hardware acceleration enabled.

For seriously speedy .NET graphics applications, check out DirectX9 (directx.asp)

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