the sprites are from the VolatileDukeDemo, it's the duke.gif file...

they are 55 x 68 with 8 bit colour depth.

Just thought you guys might want to know that installing Dx9 solved the problems I had with FullScreen/BufferStrategy/VolatileImages... I don't know why, but now my code works... and I'm happy!

Crude tests show it displaying 2500 sprites on to a 1024x768x32 screen and having them bounce around happily at a smooth frame rate (60+). I'm super happy! Thanks for the help everyone.

Now I just gotta get this transparency thing going on...

didn't you read the link?!? It's not BLock Image Transfer, it's

Bacon, Lettuce, and Interactive Tomato

hmmm i don't really like the BufferStrategy examples on the sun site. So i've got another question, will BufferStrategy always use page flipping when possible?

This might not be the best spot to post this, but here is goes anyways. I'm wondering if there are any ways to achieve page-flipping without using BufferStrategy?  Or does anyone know any good BufferStrategy page-flipping examples? I haven't been able to find any, and the sunsite ones are a little bit lacking in the page-flipping department.

Any idea's?

I was thinking of possibly having two frames and flipping back and fourth between them. Might be slow though....

i thought driver 4.1.0.9 was the latest from NVidea

anyone else know any other ways of doing this? other than LWJGL ??

since FullScreen/BufferStrategy/VolatileImage is broken, what other safe way is there to get fullscreen with a backbuffer, all in VRam...?

heheh just is right....

i noted that my loops would run 4 or 5 times without System.getCurrentMillis() returning any different results; then all of a sudden it would change by like 15 or 16 millis..

in the end i just setup it so that it calculates the average framerate over the lifetime of the program.

this is goodenough for my purposes


I'm getting about 450 fps @ 1280x1024x32 with 1 sprite(duke.gif)

does that sound about right? It's running on a geforce4

I'm not sure if it's because it is late or because I am blind, but I can't seem to find any info on coding a moderatly accurate framerate counter. Could someone please give me a hand?

Thanks.

I just converted the VolatileDuke demo to Full Screen Exclusive and I'm curious as to how fast it's running.

Yeah I beleive you are correct.