Sprite Speed Tester

[MrTAToad]

Here is the project and code for the Sprite Speed Tester

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[XanthorXIII]

Cool, thanks for letting me take a look at that. I see that you limited Webos to 100 Sprites, does it run slower with more than 100?

[MrTAToad]

Yes, the scaling really hammers performance.  100 is a bit iffy, but more or less decent.

[Kitty Hello]

SIZE=10000, FPS=22.5 on my PC. Isn't that enough?
In the Pre - DO NOT use DRAWSPRITE commands for such a huge number of sprites. Use the polyvector / plynewgroup method instead. Texture changing and glDrawXX calls are so expensive on these gadgets.

I have Wumbo's Adventure (15x10 tiles, 32x32 pixles) with a sprite layer for the enemies and a background layer for the hearts running at 60 FPS on the Pre2 with OS 2.x.

[Gary]

I get the following error when I try to compile it for PC

..\..\Routines\TAppTime.gbas (failed to open)
"SpriteSpeedTester.gbas"(63) error : user type is not defined : TYPE TAppTime is not declared

Am I missing a plug in?

[MrTAToad]

You are indeed.  I've included it.

In the Pre - DO NOT use DRAWSPRITE commands for such a huge number of sprites. Use the polyvector / plynewgroup method instead. Texture changing and glDrawXX calls are so expensive on these gadgets.

Indeed - I just tried to see what it could cope with

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[Gary]

Cheers Mr Toad, always like looking at other peoples code as it always teaches me new ways of doing things

I thought my PC was pretty high spec but compared to yours Gernot I need an upgrade 10000 sprites was 8 or 9 fps on my Q6700 2.66Ghz quad core with a Geforce GTX 275 and 8GB ram. I dread to think what yours is running 

[ampos]

size 10000, fps 17

Athlon Dual core 6000 (2x3000) 6gb ram

ATI radeon 4800 512mb

[erico]

I get the same error as Gary_Leeds...
I guess I must add Mr Toad´s function to it right?

Edit: ops, never mind, just read the thread in full...

[Millerszone]

I'm getting an average of 23.0 FPS at SIZE=10000 and
at SIZE=1000 I get 207 to 230 FPS

Home built PC:
CPU: Quad Q6600 (G0) L728A861 @ 3.5Ghz (originally 2.4Ghz) (oldie but goody)
MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DQ6 P35
VIDEO: GIGABYTE ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 256-bit
CPU COOLING: ZALMAN CNPS9700 CPU Cooling Fan/Copper Heatsink
MEMORY: G.SKILL 4GB(2x2GB)
CASE: Antec Nine Hundred with 5 Antec Variable Speed Fans
PSU: RAIDMAX VOLCANO RX-630A 630W ATX12V V2.2/ EPS12V Modular Blue LED Power Supply
STORAGE: OCZ Agility SSD Series 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC SSD 211MB/158MB
EXT. STORAGE: Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB SATA 3.5" Hard Drive

[Kitty Hello]

Hm. Maybe I did calculate the FPS wrong?
My computer is just a DELL M6500 laptop (see signature).

[spacefractal]

I cant compile this, due missing TAppTime.Gbas and is not included. Remember to include anything, if you include source for it

[MrTAToad]

Its included in my previous post.

[spacefractal]

sorry, I diddent see that. I should read the whole thread, but would been nice to edit the post to include the missing file too.

[dreamerman]

I changed MrTAToad (I hope You don't mind) code a little - added drawing sprite through Polyvector - both normal and rotozoom, to see what speed up it will give...
And I'm really surprised with results, I expected that polyvector would be much faster - Am I doing something in wrong way?

Use:
?DEFINE USEPOLY 1
?DEFINE ROTOZOOM 1
to change drawing options..

my results:

Code (glbasic) Select Expand

Radeon 2600XT   => SIZE = 1000
GF2 mx400 (:DD) => SIZE = 100  (You can compare it to mobile devices)

min_fps / max_fps / mostly
---------------RotoZoomSprie-----DrawSprite-----RotoZoomPoly-----DrawPoly

Radeon 2600XT---56/101/~74------215/222/~218----52/147/~100------215/222/~218
GF2 mx400-------22/32/~25--------30/30/~30-------21/29/~25--------30/30/~30--

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