05-10-2011, 09:58 PM
(05-10-2011, 09:55 PM)Jacob_ Wrote: We definitely use some form of hardware acceleration... without it, it's too slow to be usable.
But the code to draw lines and polygons and so on is written in Java.
But isn't it basically some commands like "drawLine(x,y)", etc?
If it's hardware-accelerated, then the graphics card is the one that actually does the drawing. If not, then the CPU draws to a buffer which is then sent to the graphics card.