XaoS online help - DirectX windowed driver
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# DirectX windowed driver

This is a driver for Windows 9x and NT. It is new since version 3.1 and because of some oddities of Windows API and kludges in DirectX it may be rather unstable. Please report all bugs. In case of problems you could use the DOS version of XaoS instead.

The DirectX driver is an alternative to the windowed win32 driver. If you have DirectX installed, this driver is used by default. It has almost the same behaviour as the win32 driver so please read its documentation for more details. The only difference should be the display speed.

The driver supports only hicolor and truecolor modes. There is no support for 256 and 16 color modes because of palette collision problems. The win32 driver will be used in these cases by default, so this should cause no problems.

If you are experiencing problems with this driver, you might want to use the win32 driver by default; to do this, use the `-driver win32` command line option.

DirectX driver was written by Jan Hubicka, Jan Olderdissen and Pavel Tzekov, 1999.