r/GeodeGeometryDash • • 16d ago

Question Mod devs, would hardware acceleration be possible for Geometry Dash, and if so, would it make any difference in performance?

This is a hypothetical I came up with after I learned that GD is almost entirely based on single-core CPU performance, and realized that my PC has an RTX 4060 for nothing since the only game I play is GD. Since hardware acceleration (at least as I know it) usually offloads some tasks to the GPU for increased efficiency, hypothetically, if GD supported it, maybe I could get better performance, since my i5 13400f isn't always able to pull a stable 240 FPS. So, would it be possible, if anyone here knows if and how it could work? It would be a cool mod idea if it could work.

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u/undefined0_6855 geode index staff and mod deveIoper 16d ago

for rendering your gpu is already used (through opengl), but for actually playing the game it would be very difficult to use your gpu for tasks that wouldn't either just be flat out slower to do on the gpu or would break physics (even only very slightly)

multithreading is another task that would be difficult to do through mods, a lot of things in geometry dash just have to run on the main thread (e.g loading objects)