Hardware vertex processing

[Bruv119]

In the video settings of AH there is a check box with hardware vertex processing  I was wondering what it actually does.

Thanks  

Bruv
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[NHawk]

The simple answer is hardware vertex processing makes your video card do all of the hard work, allowing your cpu to do other things.

The more complicated answer is when you push vertices through the pipeline they need to be transformed and lit. Hardware vertex processing (GPU intensive) means this is done in hardware, software vertex processing (very CPU intensive) is done is software.