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[hitchhikr]

- Added Horizontal_ScrollText (i don't know if this one will be smooth on other machines, so some feedback would be required).

(both archives updated).

Hai. Nice .obj loader. But I dont know how to use it. Maybe you can made it as a single procedure?

There's an example about how to use it.

[ramguru]

... from: http://heliosstudios.net/temp/Franck's_GL_Files_2005-08-23.zip (2.79MB)

I don't know what is wrong but all examples on my [WinXP]+[Athlon XP 1800]+[512Mb RAM]+[ATI 9550 128Mb] use ~90% of CPU...even "Base.exe".

[hitchhikr]

That's normal.

[Mark Jones]

Trippy scrolltext. :) Nice and smooth. Uses about 5% cpu of AMD XP 2500+ / nVidia GeForce FX5600 ultra 256MB

[ramguru]

That's normal.

That's damn abnormal !
Maybe this happens because of the way you update scene (to frequently). I use SetTimer and this seems to work without eating all resource.

[hitchhikr]

Note that when minimized the window won't take such amount of cpu time.

Standard timers are unnacceptable due to their granularity and multimedia ones are a pain in the ass.
If that really bother you you can still put a sleep(10) inside the main loop but that will slaughter the animation each time the os have to process a message (like moving the mouse for example) so this is not acceptable either.

In reality, games are always trying to obtain as much cpu as possible.

So i repeat: that's normal.

if you want to know more about that read this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnargame/html/msdn_dos2win.asp

[chola]

I' new in this, i need easy examples to understand how this program work. can you send me examples with the simple operations (add, substract, multiplication and division +,-,*,/).
if you have with 1 digit o 2 digits better.

Thanxxx !  :U

[hitchhikr]

You better ask questions about the assembly language itself here:

http://www.masmforum.com/simple/index.php?board=1.0

and you can browse this aswell:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/assembly-language/

[Siekmanski]

Horizontal_ScrollText runs smooth on my pc  "PIV 2.6 and NVIDIA GeForceFX Go 5200 videocard" uses 5 % of the cpu

[Farabi]

I' new in this, i need easy examples to understand how this program work. can you send me examples with the simple operations (add, substract, multiplication and division +,-,*,/).
if you have with 1 digit o 2 digits better.

Thanxxx !  :U

Simple operation like that cannot be used if you want to use only integer. You must use FPU. I can made you a simple example to add it.

[hitchhikr]

- Updated examples.zip, so examples should assemble with older version of windows.inc.

- Added Calc_FPS function in FrameWork.asm to use during Update:

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invoke Calc_FPS, FrameRate


It'll return the number of frames per second in eax.

[gabor]

Hello Hitch!

It is astonishing what you acomplished there!!!
I have a AMD 2500+ @2GHz with a NVIDIA 6600GT, my question is: is it normal that your intros/demos I found on your website run not so smoothly,seems to have a slightly less FPS than in windowed mode. "Is this normal?" :)

Greets, Gábor

[hitchhikr]

Maybe, i don't know, i'm not sure to understand what you mean.

[gabor]

I meant in full screen mode it does not run so smoothly as in windowed mode. The difference is very small, but noticable... The same "effect" I found in Winamp's visualization FXs.

Maybe something with my configuration is not perfect...

I think this phenomenon can be simply ignored. :)

Greets, Gábor

[hutch--]

gabor,

It probably has something to do with the fill rate from the video card and the monitor refresh rate. Full screen mode requires more pixels to be filled in one frame.