[sldev] DirectX - feasible to replace?

[Thomas Shikami]

Gareth Nelson wrote:
> The question is in the subject line - can the viewer use another API
> instead of DirectX? Where is DirectX actually used currently?
> We have OpenAL for sound, OpenGL for graphics, normal winsock stuff
> for networking........... so where does DirectX come into play
DirectX comes into play for hardware detection. OpenGL doesn't give all 
the informations DirectX can give. That's what I heard so far.