Comments on: Solitare in Windows 7: Now With Hardware Acceleration

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:43:13 +0000

Yeah i have the exact same problem… i just upgraded from Vista and all this stuff isn’t working properly… the bluetooth, the graphics card, eraser…

tell ya the truth, windows 7 sucks balls.. vista is better

By: LinuxLoop

LinuxLoop — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:21:02 +0000

Hardware acceleration depends on your graphics hardware. Solitare will work fine without it, so don’t worry about it.

By: ted williams

ted williams — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:11:07 +0000

You have defined the problem but how do I solve the problem? Is it possible for Win-7

By: ted williams

ted williams — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:08:56 +0000

How can I perform hardware acceleration for Win-7?

By: Yonah

Yonah — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:08:07 +0000

This is old news. Solitaire and the other included games, which are actually developed by Oberon Games, were changed back when Vista was released to use a more modern game engine that requires 3D acceleration. The is the same game engine used for “Chess Titans” to render a complete chess board and all pieces using polygons. You would have similar problems with any application that needs to create a Direct3D surface if you lack the appropriate 3D hardware, in which case software rendering is used instead.

Virtual Machines aren’t particularly speedy even when it comes to graphics. My Ubuntu install running on VirtualBox uses 32% CPU power alone just to draw the “Resources” tab on the System monitor at 1440×900 with a 1 second update interval. Even with the display driver provided by Sun. Obviously it’s unfair to compare the graphical speed of any OS on a Virtual Machine as the performance is not the same as using dedicated hardware with drivers to match.