2005 drivers. The latest and final for the 82845G gpu's.
To be honest, I tend to think it may not be worth it. And here's why...
If you're worrying about more eye candy for the casual market, you can never count on anything and you're probably going to have to stick with DX drivers and just support the lowest spec you can.
If you're targeting the more hardcore market, they're going to have better hardware anyway so you might as well stick to drawimage. The recent benchmark I coded is drawing 2000 32x32 drawimages per frame with alpha and lightblend sprites and the frames rates on some of those better systems are in the 100's, sometimes 200's and occasionally even higher! ;)
To be honest, I tend to think it may not be worth it. And here's why...
If you're worrying about more eye candy for the casual market, you can never count on anything and you're probably going to have to stick with DX drivers and just support the lowest spec you can.
If you're targeting the more hardcore market, they're going to have better hardware anyway so you might as well stick to drawimage. The recent benchmark I coded is drawing 2000 32x32 drawimages per frame with alpha and lightblend sprites and the frames rates on some of those better systems are in the 100's, sometimes 200's and occasionally even higher! ;)