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Old Oct 17th, 2005, 3:33 AM   #36
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Hardware acceleration is that the GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) on your graphics card does all the calculations. This means all the GPU time can work on the graphics, and the CPU can do other stuff. When the calculations are done on the CPU, you don't have all of the CPU time, since other applications are running on the background.
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