How to set the monitor display mode?

Users questions: For example opengl and directX mode, how to set the monitor's display mode? What these two different display modes?
Experts answer:DirectX Microsoft's operating system platform in the game program development interface, the so-called GameAPIforWindow s. More simply DirectX is a hardware driver (such as video card, sound card, etc. drivers) composed of the main section includes DirectDraw, DirectInput, DirectPlay, and DirectSound, respectively, for Display, enter the system, network communications and audio and so on. DirectX greatest advantage is to provide a high efficiency driver Ershi game design program interface to be uniform, so that procedures can be done independent of the hardware (HardwareIndependency). OpenG LOpenGL is OpenGraphicsLib acronym, is a 3D graphics library, is the industry standard in the field. Three-dimensional computer graphics is to use the data described into a three-dimensional space by calculating the two-dimensional image and display or print technology. OpenGL is set Become independent in terms of hardware, independent on the Windows system, at run various operating systems of various Ji Suanji on all available, and under the network environment Yi Ke Hu * server Moshi work of a professional graphics processing, calculation of Deng Gaoduan applications Kexue standard graphics library field. If your video card supports Open GL mode, you install the video drivers, you have to switch video drivers inside
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