[Tyhm]

Each voodoo has a slightly different language...each video card has a slightly different language too. This has been a problem with software development since the development of mass-produced computers: how to make one program run on all possible hardware configurations. The solution: translate to the Operating System's language, and have the hardware's custom-tailored software (Driver) translate to the card's language. So what we have here is Graal speaks in Graalian, translates it to DirectX, which the Driver translates to the card's language. With the new features, Graalian now translates to Direct3D, which is a slightly newer type of OS-level language. Your driver for your voodoo card isn't translating Direct3d to the card's language. No amount of Graal repairs will fix the video driver. What you're proposing is scrapping Direct3D altogether and teaching Graal to speak Voodoo...all the variations of Voodoo ever made....and all the Aureal and all the MonsterVisions and all the etc. etc. etc.

Stefan's not going to write proprietary (Driver) software for every 3d card ever produced! How would anything ever get done?!?