Author Topic: Question About SFML Internals (Read 3120 times)

chbrules · « **on:** March 31, 2009, 02:38:45 pm »

By default, does SFML use software rendering? I saw on the features page that it talks about using the GPU and OGL to do rotozoom and other things.

My concern is that I'm an ex-SDL user and the software rendering with their API was horrid and slow. If I create an OGL window and use SFML, does it pass off processing to the GPU? How exactly does SFML do all that fancy stuff it does? :lol:

Thanks!

Laurent · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2009, 02:48:59 pm »

SFML just uses OpenGL for everything, there's no software rendering at all (unless your implementation of OpenGL is a software one).

Imbue · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2009, 09:35:06 pm »

You may want to check out Benchmark : SDL vs SFML.

chbrules · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2009, 01:35:06 am »

Fantastic! I've already been working on a 2.5D RPG adventure game engine with SFML for two weeks now. My inspiration is pokemon diamond/pearl for the design of the maps. I was hoping it was OGL driven so I didn't have to fiddle around blitting 2D stuff to polygon surfaces and all that craziness.