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GameMaker Jason
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2004 19:15
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I made a simple program will prints hello world on the screen but when I open task manager it says it's using 90% of the CPU time and about 4000KB memory. why is it so high and how do i get it down?

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Emperor Baal
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2004 19:32
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im afraid there's nothing you can do about it. Its the way darkbasic works

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2004 23:05
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DB is intended to run games, not display hello world , take a look at what Halflife or Quake arena use, most games are not multitasking, they grab the whole PC to themselves, in the old days they even replaced the whole OS with a faster-cut down version for extra speed, cpu usage was normaly 105% (ie-games still ran a little slow on your machine)

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the_winch
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2004 01:40 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2004 01:45
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Use SYNC OFF, it stops dbpro grabbing 100% of the cpu.
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It's really only usefull for apps where consistant timing isn't required.
If you are going to use it in a game make sure you include an option to use the normal sync methods otherwise users with slower comps won't be able to play. There is also quite a difference between how SYNC OFF behaves in win9x and win2k.

I think you can use SYNC OFF and then use SYNC ON when you want to do something as fast as possible then switch back to SYNC OFF again.
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You will have to test that yourself as I am not 100% sure it works.
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Macrosii
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Posted: 31st Mar 2004 18:34
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Hi,

Just tried your 1st code snipet and DB still grabs 99% of the CPU (under W2K)?
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the_winch
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Posted: 31st Mar 2004 18:47 Edited at: 31st Mar 2004 18:48
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Quote: "Just tried your 1st code snipet and DB still grabs 99% of the CPU (under W2K)?"


Odd it is between 0-2% here in win2k. Unless you have dbc, I think it only works in the newer versions of dbpro.
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Posted: 1st Apr 2004 14:45
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Upgraded to the lastes version and now runs at 0%. Thanks
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