I recall reading in TOTWGPG that while you can pass a rotation angle or such when blitting a bitmap in directdraw that this will only work if your hardware card supports it, which he went on to say is very rarely the case. Is that still true today? I''m wondering because I''m interested in making a small application in which many rotated images will be necessary. I''ve found that SDL doesn''t natively support this, though I''m looking at libraries, and I''m not sure that learning and setting up enough D3D simply to rotate textures in place of sprites is worth it.

Doesn''t that just mean it''ll be software rendered instead? How big of a deal could that be in this case...