I have a quick question on sprites in Darkbasic Professional.
I have been looking into reasons why my game which uses images and sprites in a loop runs great on my super powered laptop at home, yet has poor frame rates on my laptop at work (which granted has only a Celeron chip with the usual Thinkpad graphics card).
How much of a performance hit is it if I don't use animated sprites, and instead use the Set Sprite Image command to control which image the sprite is using?
I went through my code and instead of using Sprite n,x,y,i when putting the sprites on the screen, I changed it so all the sprites are defined at the beginning, and used the Set Sprite Image command to set the image, and used Paste Sprite, Hide Sprite and Show Sprite to control whether the sprites were visible, and where they were to be displayed.
Would this second method offer any performance increase by taking out the part that allocates the sprite from the loop?
I already have the backsave off from earlier attempts to get this running on lower specified PCs.
I don't understand why a program displaying a maximum of seven moving sprites on the screen, with no real deep and meaningful logic, runs so slow on this laptop at work - unless it IS all about the graphics chip.
The laptop at work is running Windows XP Professional, and has the DirectX 9 Windows Update applied.
