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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / interesting solution for dbp eating up the cpu

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Xolatron old
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Posted: 31st Aug 2005 00:37
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Hey! I still punch 3-ring binder holes with the binder rings; for all other holes I use my pen .

I prefer making my projects in DBpro, if only for the familiarity and the ability to deposit my function libraries that I use directly into the program upon completion.

I've been coding in BASIC since the end of elementary school, an I can make a much better DBp app than a Java one, only beginning to learn in half a year ago.

-Xol

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re faze
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Posted: 10th Sep 2005 19:40
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will this make it to a newsletter?

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Posted: 26th Sep 2005 02:35
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just out of curiousity, is there any way to build a dll out of parts of an existing dll, since they are all independent functions more or less, could i create a new compiled binary using only selected functions from pre existing dll's?

you dont beat the system. the system beats you.
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Good solution, just got a chance to test it in my model viewer. Using sleep_cpu(1), I drop my CPU usage down to 0%, goes up to 2% if you're doing a lot, but barely. Program is a model viewer, so it still runs great.

However, I found something that I didn't see mentioned here. I ran it on some computers at work to test it out, these are systems for editing/dvd authoring so they really don't have much for video cards, but they have good processors. My model viewer has playback controls for animation on the models and when you play them, it would be slow. Not the playback or anything, it all operated fine. But say I press play, it will take a second to start playing, hit pause and it will keep playing for a second then pause. I put a "High Performance" mode into the program so users could turn this function off if it caused issues. That fixed it.

Just something to watch out for when using this. Other than that it's great, I just wouldn't want to release something with this that it could not be toggled.
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Posted: 28th Sep 2005 01:31
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yes you could make a slider using a value from 0 to 4 to control performance.
i am glad you found this helpful but the question above was kinda pressing

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Posted: 28th Sep 2005 11:01
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The only way I can think of you being able to do that is to decompile the DLL, pick out what you want and then recompile them... Also, most functions aren't independant. If something is coded correctly, it uses a LOT of dependance on other functions, otherwise the code gets huge and unmanagable.

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Posted: 28th Sep 2005 17:09
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aw crap. thanks though, ill find another way....

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Posted: 9th Oct 2005 10:17
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any of the tgc developers, is it okay to decompile a dll to recomile it into a new dll? or is this illegal?

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Posted: 9th Oct 2005 11:10
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illegal.

Decompiling is reverse engineering, and that's illegal

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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 00:49
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Isn't this code a little overcomplicated? I've always thought that the SLEEP command will execute the kernel's sleep function. I have been using it to lower CPU usage for a long time...


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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 01:25
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sleepex allows more precise cpu usage control so it can be varied from 0-100 rather than being confined to 0-1% yeilding more control and better performance.

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Xolatron old
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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 19:17
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No, DB(p) sleep doesn't call the CPU's sleep, so the CPU remains at 100%.

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Quote: "That works good for cutting it back, but I wonder how you speed it up. No matter what code I run, I can't get DBP to use ove 50% CPU. The FPS just keep dropping instead of CPU usage increasing Is it because I have a hyperthreading processor?
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Yes, it is. Any direct X application won't use more than 50% in total. I also have a hyperthreading processor. I had the Windows Task Manager open while Half-Life 2 was running. One CPU was being used 100% and the other was at about 1% - 5%, with the average on the side at 50%-60%. Make sure you have it set to show one graph per CPU and you'll be able to see that.

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Quote: "Decompiling is reverse engineering, and that's illegal"


Reverse engineering illegal

Copyright is the reason you can't rip bits out of someone else's dll and stick them in your own.
TGC will be pretty strict about how you can distribute their dlls because you could potentially use them to make a free dark game SDK.
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Right, so i'm a kind of a noob. I tried all the prev. codes & didn't go no result what so ever. Except processor lower usage.


But the @#%#&# FPS is really low.
(8/9/10 FPS)

Whose to blame DBP/USER/CODE/kernel32.dll
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Hi I have tried The "kernel32.dll" solution and i had an interesting result using FRAPS 6.0 (to see how many FPS i have in my projects)

Although i used the "sync rate 60" command. Fraps is telling me I have 32 - 33 FPS
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