[kymaz]

I'd like to know this too-- my music player has a few different rendering options for one on screen view, GDI has always used fewer gpu and cpu resources than direct2d and direct3d in 7 and 10 so far?

[thrower123]

When I tried to do some Direct2D a few years ago it was a disastrous API and far slower than old GDI.

The "Disable hardware acceleration" setting, when present, still frequently makes all sorts of desktop software run faster and less buggy.