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Hi folks,

I started out on DBPro and liked it - hit 30000 lines of code before the game became too bogged down to run (15 fps) with a seamless 3d terrain generated on the fly - with 3d trees / flora *grown* dependant on the terrain type, sky (night / day / sun), structured menu system, independant user definable key control ... the whole shebang ... this coded on a pIV 2.8EE with 2gb ram an Radeon 9800 xt. Took me 18 months to write enough code for the machine to choke.

Now on DarkSDK - also i like it, but after a couple of months I have a basic substructre (system object with basic player and associated camera, internal message pump) and *already* i am down to 10 - 16fps ?? I know i am running Debug version of the directX libraries but please help me or I will just have to give up now ! *very* frustrating. Suggestions please ??

In my experience from converting a large project from pro to sdk, there is NOTHING thats SLOWER in sdk. Some of the performance INCREASES you may come across are laughable at best, but like I said, ive never seen anything slow down.

So having said that, im guessing it has to be something different in your code.

*edit well wait a second. U6 got rid of a lot of extra junk, thus resulting in a overall fps increase for most people (my project jumped from 55 to 65ish fps). Sdk is still basically 5.8, so this could be the reason for the difference.

Thanks - It just takes someone outside the problem to help you take a step back and go "No!" . Just one misplaced statement was killing the entire code (seemingly unlikely but true) - Zeal, many thanks again 8)