Multiple Surfaces Does Not Work with Hardware Acceleration

[czar]

What we found was that users with intel chipset and s70 etc only had the basic Microsoft driver and they could not run our software.

So I am just warning that you may want to do a bit testing on different hardware, especially laptops with crappy chipsets etc before committing to full scale development.

[Traveler]

After I posted my message last night, I took another look at Asphyre and downloaded Asphyre Extreme, which looks like a better fit for me than Asphyre Casual as there is some minimal documentation and there are VCL components (which I like though I understand they are not necessary). Do people think Asphyre is the best DirectX library or should I look at PhoenixLib or Andorra 2D?

As for OpenGL, do people think DGLOpenGL.pas is the way to go if using OpenGL?

I do not have experience with Asphyre but I've seen games/demos made with it (Wicked Defense for example). Don't know if it's the best around, but I believe it is more than capable replacing delphix games.
As far as PhoenixLib goes, it's a more than viable alternative to a DirectX counterpart. I'm currently using it to rebuild Village Defense from the ground up and I'm very pleased with the results.

If you want to pursue the opengl route I would not suggest using DGLOpenGL.pas, but to use PhoenixLib instead.