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Sleet
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Posted: 10th Dec 2003 10:58
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I haven't had this much trouble getting my game to run at the right speed since before I learned about sync commands! Maybe it's just me, I don't know, but it seems that there is something seriously wrong with the code that I attatched, if I set the camera range any higher the game gets slower, when I press the left or right arrow keys there is a split second (but very annoying) delay before the object begins to turn. It just seems to run very slugishly. Maybe it's the object format? I dont' know, this is the first time I have used an object that I created so maybe it is. I am stumped.

(By the way, I know the camera follow commands are junk but I just used what was easiest so I could test it)
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Van B
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Posted: 10th Dec 2003 14:30
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What sort of frame rates are you getting?

On a 1ghz/GF2 system I'd expect it to meet the 60fps frame rate you specified. There's nothing strange about your code, tell us a bit about your PC setup.


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Van B
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Ohh, BTW - don't load a bitmap then grab the image from it, just load the image [LOAD IMAGE "texture.bmp",1].


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Sleet
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Actualy I don't have a video card. It's integrated into my motherboard on this comp but with one object (although usualy a .x or some object I created in DB like "make object box" or something) and one 1000x1000x50x50 matrix I have NEVER had a problem getting at least 30 FPS. With my setup (which like I siad I've never had problems with) I now all of a sudden am getting between 10-15 FPS (I cna go higher but I have to lower the camera range which before I have never ever had to do). Could it be the object? When I move it off and away from the map once the map if almost out of sight the frame rate jumps to 30 (or whatever I have the sync set to at that time) so I don't think it's that....but it can't be a simple testured matrix....can it?

And why should I just grab a texture from the file? (besides it being easier to code)
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Shadow Lord
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Posted: 10th Dec 2003 21:15 Edited at: 10th Dec 2003 21:16
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Quote: "
And why should I just grab a texture from the file? (besides it being easier to code)"


This way you have loaded just one copy instead of two, cuts your memory usage in half.

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Sleet
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and deleting the bitmap doesn't cut it?
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I added a couple lines of code into my main code that drops the camera range if the screen fps drops below 20, that seems to work, what's annoying though is that I still don't know why I have a problem in the first place and sometimes if I make a matrix like the one I had before, 1000,1000,50,50 and randomize it by 50 units, I can't support a camera range of even 50 units with 20fps! But if I use the same matrix and randomize it something like 2 I have no problem. I don't/didn't think that the actual height of the matrix made a difference to your vid card (or lack there of).
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