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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / In some cases DBPro is very very slow

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Juso
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Posted: 24th Feb 2003 14:24
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With this code I get fps 48 in DBV1 and only fps 3 in DBPro.

autocam off
sync on
sync rate 0
for i=1 to 1000
make object box i,rnd(25),rnd(25),rnd(25)
position object i,rnd(100)-20,rnd(100)-20,rnd(100)-50
next i
position camera 30,30,-150
do
set cursor 1,1
print screen fps()
sync
loop
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 24th Feb 2003 14:37
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What machine and graphics card do you have ?

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haggisman
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Posted: 24th Feb 2003 14:38
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Ummm... Juso are you the only person to not have heard about patch 4?

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 24th Feb 2003 14:40
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Patch 4beta3 gives me a solid 70 fps in full-screen exclusive mode with the code above. And my graphics card is locked at this rate so I don't expect it to go higher. Not too bad for 1000 objects on-screen at once.

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Rich

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Rob K
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Posted: 24th Feb 2003 15:16
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This is a well known problem in DBPro Retail to Patch 3.1 Juso. Patch 4 however has a redone 3D pipeline which can cope much better with large numbers of objects and on your system I would expect 30-40FPS under P4 at least, probably more.

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Juso
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Posted: 24th Feb 2003 18:39
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Sure I have heard about patch 4, but I havent it yet, so where can I get it?
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Rob K
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Posted: 24th Feb 2003 19:12
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Patch 4 hasn't been released yet, it is a mythological beast which with a little luck will materialise sometime this year.

Seriously though, a last week Feburary or Early March release looks likely.

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CloseToPerfect
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 19:39
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last week of march, more likly

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MrTAToad
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Nope - more likely early March.

Just hope we dont have to beware the Ides of March...

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SpineTrader
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 20:53
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Hi sorry to ask this here but will patch 4 sort out the "add-media" problem I'm having in the project manager, when I press "add" it takes forever for the dialogue box to come up (2mins sometimes!) I have an XP2000 with 512mB of RAM using NTFS on XP, any ideas?

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 1st Mar 2003 21:59
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I doubt it. As everyone has said before, its just a 3D engine upgrade.

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SpineTrader: You're using the old version of the editor. Just pop over to the RGT web site where Guy (the Editor creator) has provided links to the latest editor.

http://www.realgametools.com/downloads.html
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Juso
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2003 12:51
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IanM: Where in realgametools's site is the link to the latest editor? I didnt find it.
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SpineTrader
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Cheers IanM for the information about the editor, I've just downloaded the patches and will give them a whirl. Juso I assume IDE means "something...something...Editor" so download the IDE patches with those names.
(I suppose in Finnish... "Editor" begins with a "Z" or something?)

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2003 13:20
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Just tried the IDE patches, work brilliantly, it would be nice if you could drag and drop the filenames into the code directly or from the desktop into the project manager... eventually maybe?

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IanM
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2003 13:28
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IDE - Integrated Development Environment.
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Juso
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2003 14:38
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Thanks,
I found them finally. Unfortunatelly still if I go to VariableWatcher, DBpro crashes immediatelly.
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SpineTrader
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Posted: 4th Mar 2003 00:32
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Thanks for what IDE stands for (I'm not so smug now eh?)

Cheers!

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