He does not mention D3D at all just OGL, and I do agree with hime about the stupid posts that say ah just use D3D / OGL to do that. Ok so I''ll shoot my self there...

As for my statement regarding SDL, I downloaded it about a month or three ago, tried a simple program and got 1 FPS, where as the same program written in pure DX had about 60 fps. I had downloaded the most current stable version. Since at the time I was looking into porting something over to Linux I used SDL on the Linux system with a good fps, just the same prog running under windows was very poor. Granted people will get better results than me with SDL, I was looking for something that I coould use to create a demo on both Linux and Windows fast, SDL just did not port very well in my experience.

I have not looked at the source for SDL but I know it''s not a wrapper for the Linux system, but for Windows I thought it would be a simple wrapper, I stand corrected if it is not the case.

As for writing my own wrapper for DX, I think that it was the best thing to do as I have learnt more from that than using CDX / SDL / FastGraf (I''ve only used this under DOS). Also if there is a problem with my wrapper I can find and fix the problem easily, whereas using someone elses wrapper I would have to dig around for a couple of hours to find the error.

I just remembered that CDX has an Iso engine as part of the wrapper. But I do not know how good it is as I stopped using CDX a while back.

When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleages come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Write in C."

In my experience you''re right, SDL performs better on Linux than Windows. Now I don''t blame Sam for that, after all he works for Loki.

It seem to have its own routines for many blits (SDL_blit.c, SDL_blit_0.c, SDL_blit_1.c, SDL_blit_A.c, SDL_blit_N.c) so I don''t think this should affect the performance unless it comes with overriden functions for this on Linux, or perhaps even using DirectX directly.

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*yawns*
Just added alpha-blending lights... very experimenal
and SLOW. I get 30-40fps with lights and 80fps without
lights. Damn.... I hate optimizing stuff!
Thanks for your tips everyone!! I''ll post a link to my
crappy engine when I get enough time and motivation to
upload it. But hey, you''ll need linux for this slow
baby.

vidlgon a fweak''n idiot