[SDL] SDL Graphics Tutorials Run SLOW for Modern PC

[Alan Wolfe]

works fine for me (and everyone else) what kinda video card you got?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G B" <gbpublicemailaddress at yahoo.com>
To: "sdl list" <sdl at libsdl.org>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: [SDL] SDL Graphics Tutorials Run SLOW for Modern PC


> Any Nintendo 8bit (1985) game seems to run as well or
> better than the seemingly well-enough optomized
> graphics tutorials I've seen for SDL on my 2GHz
> machine. 
> 
> What's going on here?
> 
> For example, compare 
> 
> 1. 
> SDL lesson 2 at:
> http://cone3d.gamedev.net/cgi-bin/index.pl?page=tutorials/gfxsdl/tut2
> using your modern PC
> 
> with
> 
> 2.
> Super Mario Brothers or any other ancient game, or any
> old PC game you can run on a modern PC which runs so
> fast you can't even play it.
> 
> The SDL examples running on a modern PC seem to run
> very slow.  Why?
> 
> Thanks!
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
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