If hardware accelerated GDI operations are driver dependent, but all versions of Windows except Vista * support it.
- Vista has added a new driver model called the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM).
- In Windows 7, WDDM v1.1 was added, including the return of GDI hardware acceleration .
*: In Vista, you can use the XP driver, which happens to GDI in this setting, which I do not know. (Perhaps you can find this out by checking D3DCAPS2_CANSHARERESESURCE ?) Edit: According to this , it works with XPDM.
There are several caps cells that you can check on Win7, but I don't know if usermode can be checked.
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