[SDL] HW Accelerated Alpha Blending

[Mattias Engdegård]

ajw126 at student.cs.york.ac.uk wrote:
>I'm having problems getting a sensible framerate for my game running
>under Windows 2000. When I use colour-keyed transparency, I get a
>frame rate of 20+fps, however when I swtich to alpha blending (which
>is what I would much rather use), I only get <1fps.

SDL does not accelerate alpha blits right now. Try RLE.