Software Rendering Usage in WPF

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blogs.msdn.com, posted 2010-06-22

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BillHenn on 2010-06-22

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A discussion on when WPF falls back to using software rendering.

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"As you know by default WPF uses Hardware acceleration (GPU) to render its content (aka Hardware rendering). In most cases rendering using Hardware (HW) acceleration is much more performant than rendering using Software. In some small cases SW rendering may be faster (E.g. low end graphics card sometimes found in Netbooks). WPF will always attempt to use HW rendering, but in certain cases WPF will fall to Software rendering and the application may not be aware of it. Some folks wanted to better understand all the possible cases, so am I am listed these below."