Hey Guys,
Am I correct that WMS Server uses the GDI+ library for rendering - so the graphics card shouldn't matter for performance? I'm just wondering if there is any hardware acceleration involved with the rendering that would benefit from a better graphics card on the server although it seems like that is not the case.
Thanks,
Chris
Hi, Chris
Yes, WMS server does use GDI+ library for rendering, so the server won’t get a better performance just by using a better graphic card. After a little research about ways to implement GDI hardware acceleration, I found it’s quite a tough job to make that happen. Even though MS has introduced a new feature called GDI Hardware Acceleration, it’s just working with Windows 7 and graphic cards with DDI, furthermore, APIs provided seems to be of hardware level and we can hardly make them work in our software. Here is a link redirects you to the page introducing the new feature:
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff566559(VS.85).aspx
Thanks, further questions please let me know.
Johnny