opengl vs. directx

[NoZart]

Hi,
i am using ppsspp on a windows machine, and am wondering - is the opengl renderer in there courtesy of portability, or are there legit reasons to use it on a windows machine?

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The OpenGL renderer is generally better. However, if you are on an older Intel graphics card the DirectX one may be better. Also, a few games run a little faster on DirectX, although most are faster on OpenGL (this depends on video card and drivers, though.)

OpenGL is the default on purpose.

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[Anubis2048]

I can also confirm that the DirectX option is the best for machines with Intel video cards, games just run much faster on those.

However, on machines with AMD/Nvidia video cards, I have seen little difference in performance. DirectX does look uglier on my machine though, so I have no idea what that's about.

[LunaMoo]

^Well outside of some slight bugs here and there DX also doesn't support postprocessing shaders yet, so if you use any, that's probably why it looks worse.:]