I''m having some trouble making a side scrolling game. The game is running in 640x480x16 screen mode and I''m using DirectDraw. I''m trying to use a set of 32x32 tiles to create each level. The problem I''m having is I''m not getting good frame rates when I redraw all the tiles every frame. I tried creating a huge drawing surface in system memory (the size of the level) and pre-drawing the entire level on that surface, then doing a single blit to the back buffer and a flip each frame. However, I''m still getting a bad frame rate, which is not surprising, since the hardware blits are not available in system memory. I''m not sure what I''m doing wrong, but any help would be appreciated.

Don''t create a huge drawing surface to blit from. Instead, us an array and create and blit directly to the backbuffer the tiles that should appear based on the array and where the camera is relative to it.

I'm not having any problems with the framerate in my 2d tile scrolling engine. 62 fps on my PII 233 MHz.
Do you know how mays fps your is running on? What does your code look like?

Edited by - ZomeonE on 1/20/00 3:34:03 PM