There are many alternatives to GDI for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is OpenGL, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked eight alternatives to GDI and six of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to GDI are DirectX, SDL, PyOpenGL and ANGLE.
OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. Since its introduction in 1992, OpenGL has become the industry's most widely used and supported 2D and 3D graphics application programming interface (API), bringing...
DirectX is a set of components in Windows that allows software, primarily and especially games, to work directly with your video and audio hardware.
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the...
The goal of ANGLE is to allow users of multiple operating systems to seamlessly run WebGL and other OpenGL ES content by translating OpenGL ES API calls to one of the hardware-supported APIs available for that platform. ANGLE currently provides translation from OpenGL ES 2.0, 3.
Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured Software Development Kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D graphics for applications such as games and virtual reality. It is free (LGPL) and cross-platform (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X).
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