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LilSpriteX
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08/05/2003
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28
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6th March, 2005 at 01:59:49 -
Whenever I use the "Resize Display to Fit Current Window Size" option, my game slows down considerably. I don't experience this while playing other people's games that use full screen and resizing (Eternal Daughter, for example). Are there some performance options I can change to combat this? I tried changing the color mode of the game, but it slowed down just as much.
Thanks!
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Kirby Smith
Resident Slacker
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18/05/2003
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6th March, 2005 at 02:32:27 -
What you want to do when you go full-screen is to have the game run in a really low resolution, rather than stretch the image to a higher one. If you're stretching the image, it has to run every pixel through a resize and relocate matrix, every frame. When you just run the game in low-resolution, you don't hit that because your just outputting a smaller image to the monitor, which does all the work for you... sorta. Hope that made sense. It's 1:30 Am where I am and I'm tired.
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Johan Hargne (Wartagon)
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6th March, 2005 at 08:35:32 -
"Resize Display to fit current Window Size" does not work for me eithr, it never have. It's why I'm using "Change resolution mode" which comes with MMF and works superb.
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AndyUK
Mascot Maniac
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01/08/2002
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6th March, 2005 at 10:06:29 -
MMF is a lot better with fullscreen modes since it can fullscreen any mode properly. Tgf can do a decent fullscreen but you needed 16bit mode 256 colour mode and 320x200 resolution for it to work. Even then it wont always work on 100% of pc's
(and probably not windows xp at all)
however you can use the display properties object and window object to create a proper fullscreen that is slightly better than simply resizing.
what you need to do is turn on the resize option and make you game resoltion native to the monitor (so the lines are all the same size. try 320x240)
and have it maximise at startup with no menu bar
then create the first frame to be blank
make the events in this order
Always set client area to 640x480 (windows object)
Always create dd object (display properties object)
Always set resoluton to 640x480 (display properites)
Always next frame
that should do it.
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LilSpriteX
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08/05/2003
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6th March, 2005 at 13:13:56 -
Change Resolution Mode worked perfectly. Thanks a ton!
And AndyUK, thanks for the info! Perhaps I should have specified that I'm using MMF.
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AndyUK
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01/08/2002
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6th March, 2005 at 20:53:57 -
lol no need for any of what i wrote then.
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DeadmanDines
Best Article Writer
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27/04/2006
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7th March, 2005 at 07:46:51 -
i don't think the 'create dd' function needs to be an always event - i think you can just do it on 'start of frame'
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Hagar
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Old klik fart
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20/02/2002
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7th March, 2005 at 10:35:16 -
you cant get a true 512x380 (512 x whatever it is) resolution on 98 and above, which stinks...but old games can still be run in it, so it must be TGF/the display properties object...
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AndyUK
Mascot Maniac
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01/08/2002
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7th March, 2005 at 16:09:16 -
Yeah you're right dines.
and the 512x384 crashes The games factory as soon as I click on it.
So its only windows 95 and 3.1? that it will work on?
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DistantJ [FZ Games]
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02/08/2004
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855
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12th March, 2005 at 06:53:37 -
In MMF why not just try checking "Enable DirectX" and "Use VRAM" in the runtime options. Maximising the window will then use your graphics card/video ram to resize the picture rather than the computer's own memory, this method also will even out all the pixels so they're the right size, and run a bilinear filter on the image so it looks nice and smooth rather than blocky.
Although if you're using a lot of large semitransparent objects it can cause slowdown or framerate drop. Although I'm not sure if that's all computers or just my piece of crap graphics card.
http://www.fzgames.com
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