i hear terms as graphics drivers, opengl, directx etc … alot. even though i have looked them up i never understood what they really are. it would be great if you could give me a slight idea of how graphics work in computer or atleast point me to good resources.
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Think about everything that happens in a manual transmission car when you shift gear. Lots of cogs and gears meshing and unmeshing, the clutch, all of that stuff. Would you know how to do it by hand? Probably not (and you couldn’t, but that’s another story). And even if you did, then you’d need to know every single car’s gearbox and engine.
So the manufacturers agreed that they’ll have a standard: a stick and a pedal.
That’s what drivers do: they provide a standard way for the operating system to control the chips on your video card. Each video card is differently designed under the hood and there is not default or simple way to tell it to make pixel xy red. So the chip makers also provide drivers that have standardised functions allowing for easier control of the graphics, so you don’t have to care about the inner workings of that particular chip.
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