What LIB to use? Football manager-esque game

[Skagen]

I plan to make a game similar to football manager. Lots of text, full-screen, no 3d or animations other than some dropdown windows and such. Which graphical library would be good for this? DirectX?

[Skagen]

bump

[ceruleus]

windows.h

[Skagen]

ok ^_^

[andywestken]

I don't know about Football Manager, but I do have the (free) demo version of Championship Manager on my PC. And I can tell you that it is using Direct3D (D3D9.dll loads into the process). But it does use 3D animations, to show the match play.

If you happy being Windows (and XBox) specific, you could follow suit. Or if you want to go cross-ptatform, look at OpenGL instead.

Andy

P.S. You should also google "opengl directx" to check out the pros and cons of the two technologies.