Patent ID: 8771064

Claim:
A method for use with a gaming machine having a programmable compositing client and a plurality of electronic displays for displaying graphical output, a graphics engine, and at least one graphics card, the method comprising: driving a first of said plurality of electronic displays with said programmable compositing client; driving a second of said plurality of electronic displays with said at least one graphics card independently of the first of said electronic displays and said programmable compositing client; managing renderable graphics assets for use in the graphical output of said first of said plurality of electronic displays with said graphics engine; providing said renderable graphics assets on demand to said programmable compositing client with said graphics engine so as to drive said first of said plurality of electronic displays; rendering one or more of said renderable graphics assets with said programmable compositing client; controlling one or more visual aspects of the rendered graphics assets of the graphical output of said first of said electronic displays with the graphics engine via said programmable compositing client; and controlling the graphical output of said second electronic display with the graphics engine via said at least one graphics card.