Mycal
Staff member
For the past...whatever...years, this project has used DirectX7 for the graphics engine. For a long time I have been hoping to upgrade to a newer version of DX and finally decided to begin the conversion. Considering I haven't found a good free DX9 wrapper for visual basic and have no desire to create one myself, I decided to stick with DX8. Well, first impressions are good to me. It moves very fast compared to DX7, but as I started to convert more and more functions over to DX8, the FPS dropped lower and lower and was eventually much much lower than its DX7 counterpart.
So obviously, either I'm doing something wrong, or the DX8 upgrade is actually not worth the effort. I'm going to do more research, but hopefully within the week, I can finish the conversion entirely to upload so I can get second opinions on the FPS drop. I'm hoping that is something I'm doing wrong or simply because I'm running this uncompiled.
So obviously, either I'm doing something wrong, or the DX8 upgrade is actually not worth the effort. I'm going to do more research, but hopefully within the week, I can finish the conversion entirely to upload so I can get second opinions on the FPS drop. I'm hoping that is something I'm doing wrong or simply because I'm running this uncompiled.