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Re: I need more power captain.

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Subject: Re: I need more power captain.
From: Asher Dunn <asher at fireyesoftware dot com>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:55:05 -0400
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On Sep 29, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Sam Rowlands wrote:

Thanks all for your help. I have improved frame rate on my powerbook at 1280x854 to over 30 frames a second by changing the way how I deal with the background and how I access the objects, also the pragmas helped!

Cool!

I did get a speed increase when using it at 1024x768, I use the MBS plugin to resize the screen and that gave me the black borders around the edge. Personally I prefer to play my games in Widescreen if I can, I don't really know why.

I do too :-)

I was thinking I might make it Auto detect the best resolution for the game, I am sure I have seen this before in a game but I cannot recall which one. Where the game did some tests and then set the 'best' resolution for you. You could of course change that resolution if you wanted to.

What I usually do is provide a popup with a few standard resolutions (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768) and the current resolution at launch time (1280x854 for instance), and let the user choose. All the 4:3 resolutions are universal, and including the current resolution allows for widescreen where it is supported.

Once again thank you all for your help. I am so glad there is this list with people on who are so willing to offer advice and help. My game is coming along (slowly). Finally all these years of playing video games can become useful :-)

Haha exactly my argument. Let us know when you have a beta available :-)

Asher Dunn
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President and Head Developer of Fireye Software <http://www.fireyesoftware.com/>
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