• zurohki@aussie.zone
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    8 hours ago

    APIs are… how you tell the GPU to do things. Nobody’s doing low level hardware access like it’s 1990 and you’re running MS-DOS.

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      8 hours ago

      Yes, summer child.

      They also used to optimize for cards, too, to get the most performance for players. They don’t do that anymore, hence they only target the APIs and shit it out regardless of performance.