Maxus: You are right, that on "stone age" systems, DX7 is a solution.
But on current systems, this means Windows XP, the drivers have more or less bad problems with DX7 (depends on chip and driver. Intel, holding 50% of the market, is the worst) and thus releasing an engine to work in that market is a serious misscalculation.
I don't know if you actually ever read these boards here, but if you did, you would know that our main request point with Max2D beside "Buffers" like in Blitz3D is an official DX9 driver as DX7 is 30%+ slower than OpenGL and that already shows how much performance is lost up to DX9.
I really hope that there will be a DX9 version soon, otherwise, there is no point for it. (as you mentioned yourself: B3D is quite old, the used DX version has been replaced 5 years ago by DX8)
But on current systems, this means Windows XP, the drivers have more or less bad problems with DX7 (depends on chip and driver. Intel, holding 50% of the market, is the worst) and thus releasing an engine to work in that market is a serious misscalculation.
I don't know if you actually ever read these boards here, but if you did, you would know that our main request point with Max2D beside "Buffers" like in Blitz3D is an official DX9 driver as DX7 is 30%+ slower than OpenGL and that already shows how much performance is lost up to DX9.
I really hope that there will be a DX9 version soon, otherwise, there is no point for it. (as you mentioned yourself: B3D is quite old, the used DX version has been replaced 5 years ago by DX8)