help! i am trying to implement a splash screen into my game i am making, i am using Direct draw, whenever i run my program it starts of on a fairly short, up totaly randomly lasting lenght of time (up to about ten seconds), then my entire screen turns white, and stays that way untill i press the enter key that i have coded to make that got to the gameplay part of the game. from here on in everything runs fine. (using directx 8) i would post code, but i dont konw what is causing the problem, so anything short of posting my entire program i''m not sure what to add. please help, and feel free to ask for any additional information you might need thanks, username_

Just go back and start commenting out everything that you added since it worked correctly. Comment out a few lines and compile. When you get to a point where it is working, look at the commented out code because you know that is where the problem is.

You could probably use a debug output. Send info to a textfile when you do something important.