Let's wait until Pedro Vieira confirms he is using Windows and that
setting SDL_VIDEODRIVER solves his problem. If so then yes we could
patch __init__.py to set SDL_VIDEODRIVER if it is not already set.
Personally, I see a 6X increase in framerate enabling directx for the
test case below.
Lenard
René Dudfield wrote:
hi,
this is probably because your computer has faster directx 2d driver
than windib driver.
We had to follow SDLs change of default driver, because the directx
driver is broken on some platforms.
However you can set the old directx driver.
os.environ["SDL_VIDEODRIVER"] = "directx"
I would recommend wrapping it in some OS detection - so your game
would still work on the platforms where the directx driver is broken.
Lenard: Maybe we can make this behaviour default in pygame 1.8.1... ?
What do you think?
We could use the platform module to detect if it's win9x, win2k etc,
then select the directx driver if so.
If you reckon, it's a good idea, I'll try and make a patch for the OS detection.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Pedro Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.
I updated the version of pygame, 1.7.1 to 1.8, and I had problem with that.
My game started to become very slow, only by exchanging version. I was
looking to see what was happening and saw that the fps was very low. I
created a simple code to test and I saw that for the same code, ran on both
versions, there is a big difference in FPS. What may be happening?
Thank you.
The code that I used for test is below:
import pygame
class Game:
screen = None
screen_size = None
run = True
def __init__( self, size, fullscreen):
pygame.init()
flags = pygame.DOUBLEBUF
if fullscreen:
flags = (pygame.FULLSCREEN | pygame.DOUBLEBUF |
pygame.HWSURFACE)
self.screen = pygame.display.set_mode( size, flags )
def handle_events( self ):
for event in pygame.event.get():
if ((event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN)or(event.type ==
pygame.KEYUP)):
if (event.key == pygame.K_ESCAPE):
self.run = False
def loop( self ):
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
while (self.run):
clock.tick()
print clock.get_fps()
self.screen.fill((255,255,255))
self.handle_events()
pygame.display.flip()
game = Game((1024,768), 1)
game.loop()
