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Dark GDK / Freeing up CPU time with dbWait

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WLGfx
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Posted: 5th Mar 2011 00:03
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I was wondering if anyone knows how to go about this?

I spotted somewhere in the forums that the dbWait command now doesn't hog the CPU so I updated to the 2010 GDK. I have a demo running on the screen with a dialog window open to alter setting. Within the main GDK loop it just calls the run routine for the demo. If the pause is active then I have got it to do nothing except dbWait(60). There's hardly any noticeable change in CPU speed. The only other thing running on the program at that point is just the windows messaging system for the dialog.

Have I got the wrong update? Or is there another update further than that?

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Superdeath360
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Posted: 7th Mar 2011 00:43 Edited at: 7th Mar 2011 00:43
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Idk if it has anything to do with this, but using dbWait(1); at the end of each loop makes my client lag less when using multisync.

edit: ya it has nothing to do with this

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Dar13
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Posted: 7th Mar 2011 01:28
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The basic DarkGDK dbWait(time) doesn't free up CPU cycles like IanM's "nice wait" in his Matrix1Utils plugin for DBPro.


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Michael P
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Posted: 7th Mar 2011 13:58
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Just use the Sleep windows command.

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WLGfx
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Posted: 7th Mar 2011 16:19
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After a bit of googling I got the sleep() command to work. My program kept freezing unless the mouse was moving and I found that I had to use PeekMessage instead of GetMessage.

Thankyou. Processor usage has now gone from 55% right down to between 0% and 2% when paused. Perfect.

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