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Graphics / How do I do backgrounds? [Not Relevant anymore]

« on: January 12, 2010, 10:05:10 pm »

I have the source of the problem but unfortunately this is a problem that will not be fixed.

This is not a SFML problem, just to be clear. It's a mixture of Microsoft, ATI and Fujitsu.

> Mobility 2300 GPU's are legacy and not supported for Windows 7.

This is a reply from a mod over on the ATI GAME forums.

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Graphics / How do I do backgrounds? [Not Relevant anymore]

« on: January 05, 2010, 01:15:48 am »

Back home, at my desktop.

W7 64bit with an NVIDIA Card, had the same issues as before and then I installed the latest drivers from the NVIDIA site. Works like a charm.

So it could be issues on Laptops with W7 64bit and ATI Cards.

Sounds like fun.

I also tried other SFML projects and it's the same.

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Graphics / How do I do backgrounds? [Not Relevant anymore]

« on: January 01, 2010, 12:23:33 am »

Are you two using ATI cards?

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Graphics / How do I do backgrounds? [Not Relevant anymore]

« on: December 31, 2009, 02:37:35 am »

I tried a compiled version of my app on another Windows 7 machine and it worked perfectly there.

That machine was a 32bit W7 machine though, and mine is 64bit W7.

Then I tried it on another W7 machine that is 64 bit and I had the same slowdown issue as I had before.

So there is something going on in W7 64bit. Be it SFML or OpenGL.

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Graphics / How do I do backgrounds? [Not Relevant anymore]

« on: December 30, 2009, 03:04:45 am »

Just played Quake 2 at a lan in OpenGL and it works perfectly. So nothing wrong with the OpenGL setup.

So I'm wondering if I should try SFML 2, but the thing is, that this is not a project I can run on a preview build.

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Graphics / How do I do backgrounds? [Not Relevant anymore]

« on: December 27, 2009, 01:43:04 am »

There are no updated display drivers for my laptop. So it seems I'm out of luck.

Probably going to switch to Allegro then or something. It's a damn shame.

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Graphics / How do I do backgrounds? [Not Relevant anymore]

« on: December 27, 2009, 12:07:09 am »

I can't try another OS at the moment, but lets assume that this is a problem in Windows 7. Do you know what I could try to fix this problem?

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Graphics / How do I do backgrounds? [Not Relevant anymore]

« on: December 26, 2009, 11:35:39 pm »

This is baffling me. (I'm using Windows 7 btw)

I have a few sprites that I walk around the screen, this works very smooth and well.

As soon as I try to create some sort of a background sprite, everything slows down to a crawl.

I've tried two ways, one was to have a 800x600 image as a sprite and draw that every time (the image was only 11KB), but the whole program became very slow.

Then I tried the loop in a loop way to tile 50x50 images, and still this is as slow as the first method.

So how do I proceed?

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Graphics / Freeing a sprite from memory

« on: November 15, 2009, 05:55:23 pm »

Thanks for the reply guys.

I've changed the code into a list (since it's erase it fast) and it's working great now, it only allocates memory to a certain max and then I have the list erasing the items that are outside the screen.

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Graphics / Freeing a sprite from memory

« on: November 15, 2009, 03:51:32 am »

I saw another post that stated that "You have nothing to do except properly managing the lifetime of your instances."

Since I'm new with SFML I'm wondering how I would go by doing this.

I have a vector of missiles.

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struct missile
{
sf::Sprite Sprite;
float angle;
};

std::vector<missile> vMissiles;

vMissiles.push_back(Missile);


This all works fine and dandy, but what I'm worried about is when the missile exits the screen, I want to free it from memory. I'm seeing the executable grow in memory for each shot I do.

Currently I'm just not drawing them anymore, but what else can I do?