[SDL] Better performance needed - am I doing this right?

Colin Tuckley colin at tuckley.org
Wed Jun 6 10:18:53 PDT 2007


Rúben Lício wrote:

> SDL_HWSURFACE normaly is faster then SDL_SWSURFACE. 


Unfortunately that isn't an option, I'm in an XWindows environment on Linux
and can't use HWSURFACE.

> SDL_Flip works nice with doublebuffer active. If you dont have double
> buffer active, try to use SDL_UpdateRects way.

The docs say that calling SDL_Flip is equiv to calling
SDL_UpdateRect(screen, 0, 0, 0, 0) for non HW surfaces.

regards,

Colin

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