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		bigstrat2003 on Jan 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive... Playing video games is very common and requires 3D acceleration for most games. It's not some niche requirement.

mattl on Jan 16, 2024 [–]

Are there many 3D-accelerated games ported to BeOS?

snvzz on Jan 17, 2024 | [–]

There's wine, but then again there's also 3d acceleration now (limited to some AMD cards).

Web browsers and such do also leverage the gpu for rendering.

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