Wiz - screen tearing

[fjsantosb]

Your game looks really great!
True old school graphics!

King Regards, fjsantos.

[Hatonastick]

Here's a WIP screenie of the game I'm running on Wiz



Nothing too complex. Even with lots of snow it ran at 60FPS.

Mate, I always love your work.

So, where's the iPod version? 

[Kitty Hello]

Excellent grphics. I'll add an inline command so you can switch to what you need. I default to the quicker one then.

[Ian Price]

Thanks fjsantos, hatonastick and Gernot

[Kitty Hello]

OK, I flipped the loop and now it's faster. I get 200 FPS when I'm in tearing mode, and 151 FPS when I'm in the smooth mode. (Just drawing the FPS, nothing more)
I've implemented a method to toggle for you. I'm just waiting until I can wait for vblank to make it even smoother. Who needs > 60 FPS.

[Ian Price]

Sounds good to me

[Kitty Hello]

I made a quick update w/o the vblank. You can try and see if it fits you.

[Ian Price]

At work at the mo, but will try later.

Fingers crossed

[Ian Price]

Sorry for the double post, but this deserves to be more than an edit to the post above.

This seems to be working pretty well now gernot

I'm getting 55FPS with no tearing, although I could probably optimise to get a full 60FPS

There is a slightly odd "jumping" to the scrolling, but it's more acceptable than the tearing. Maybe that "vblank" as you call it might help with this.

Good job gernot

[Ian Price]

Gernot - does this help you at all? - http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,23,271

[Hatonastick]

He may know about it if the 'KungPhoo' mentioned is Gernot's KungPhoo.

Edit:  Sorry, I sound like I'm being a smarta**.  I didn't mean it like that.

[Kitty Hello]

oh. Did I improve SDL now?

[Hatonastick]

So that's another Kungphoo is it?   I could have sworn that used to be your ID on Retro Remakes, which is why I thought it was you.  Of course there's a few billion other people in the world so chances that a forum ID might be used by more than one person is probably fairly high.   

[Ian Price]

Nope, same KungPhoo. He's laughing at the credit I presume. 

[Hatonastick]

Ah ok, sorry I must have left my sense of humour in my other body.  Totally went over my head.

Actually I'm not sure why I commented in the first place.  It's not like I've added anything to the conversation.  Sorry about the attempted thread-jack mate.