I was wondering where the steps in the fixed function pipeline are executed? Which one is exectued on the CPU and which one on the GPU? Below is the list with steps in the pipeline, which of these is run on CPU and which one on GPU? Tesselation World transform Vertex blending View transform Vertex fog Lightning and materials Projection transform Clipping Homogenoeous divide Viewport scaling Triangle setup Sample texture Blend diffuse and specular color Alpha test Depth test Stencil test Per Pixel fog Alpha blend Dither Gamma Regards Wox

When using Vertex shaders you can do the world transformation and stuff in the shader...if you not use a shader you do SetTransform(D3DTS_WORLD in the application....is this just a function call to the GPU?

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When using Vertex shaders you can do the world transformation and stuff in the shader...if you not use a shader you do SetTransform(D3DTS_WORLD in the application....is this just a function call to the GPU?

Yes. SetTransform will eventually lead to loading a matrix into the graphics card. The card will transform all vertices sent through the pipeline with the matrices you specify with the SetTransform call.

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