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DirectX AND OpenGL

July 26th, 2005 Posted in general

Yes, isn’t anymore a battle between the two: thanks to the latest PTK release, you can have BOTH :) That’s what I did with my games The Goalkeeper and Quizland. I just added a small launcher window (default as DirectX to have more compatibility) and a simple checkbox that allows the user to choose between the two driver possibilities.
This way, I’m reducing the number of people that can’t play the demo by a very small percentage: if for some reason the DX version doesn’t work, they can simply try the Gl one and vice-versa.

A really winning solution!

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