Vulkan

Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and...

• Because Vulkan is OpenGL's successor. Guest • Feb 2018 Disagree   Agree

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Microsoft DirectX

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on...

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Allegro

Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, libraries mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. They handle common, low-level tasks such as creating...

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GDI

GDI++.dll is a replacement for the Windows default font rasterizer, which gives you a better font-smoothing capability, just like Mac OS X. Note: It runs as a...

• Discontinued Abandoned since 2006... : http://drwatson.nobody.jp/gdi /download-en.html

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Mantle

Mantle is a graphics API specification; the software component that makes it easy to apply programming techniques and optimizations written for consoles to PCs with...

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Crystal Space

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...

• Discontinued Discontinued since July 2012 : http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Download

• Crystal Space is a software using 3D rendering/drawing APIs. OpenGL is a rendering/drawing API. Guest • Feb 2018 Disagree   Agree

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