Re: Double buffering

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Posted by Mark on November 05, 1998 at 04:20:16:
In Reply to: Re: Double buffering posted by scr on November 04, 1998 at 12:15:20:
Subject: Re: Double buffering

: : I am running my pinball sims in a somewhat exotic HW/SW environment and experienced that TS! does double buffering, while Addiction Pinball and BRUSA don't.
: I mixed up different installations. In this HW/SW environment I'm talking about TS! refuses to do double buffering, too. My apologies for that!
: Might it be the case that running the pinball sims under NT prevents them to do double buffering?
: FYI: MS recently rebranded Windows NT 5.0, it is now called Windows 2000. Guess how many end users will line up in front of the local software superstore not knowing that they are buying a completely different OS.
: scr
Double buffering under Windows requires double the amount of video RAM used by the selected video mode as well as a DirectDraw driver which supports it. If you don't have enough video RAM then TimeShock disables it automatically. If you have an old DirectDraw driver or none at all that would also prevent double buffering.
I don't run NT but I believe that it does support DirectDraw although it's not the latest version. Some older DirectDraw drivers did not support page flipping so you might try downloading the latest DirectX drivers for your video board and give it another pop.
Personally I don't think page flipping improves things much anyway. I've played TS both ways and didn't notice the difference while playing.
Mark

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: : : I am running my pinball sims in a somewhat exotic HW/SW environment and experienced that TS! does double buffering, while Addiction Pinball and BRUSA don't.

: : I mixed up different installations. In this HW/SW environment I'm talking about TS! refuses to do double buffering, too. My apologies for that!

: : Might it be the case that running the pinball sims under NT prevents them to do double buffering?

: : FYI: MS recently rebranded Windows NT 5.0, it is now called Windows 2000. Guess how many end users will line up in front of the local software superstore not knowing that they are buying a completely different OS.

: : scr

: Double buffering under Windows requires double the amount of video RAM used by the selected video mode as well as a DirectDraw driver which supports it. If you don't have enough video RAM then TimeShock disables it automatically. If you have an old DirectDraw driver or none at all that would also prevent double buffering.

: I don't run NT but I believe that it does support DirectDraw although it's not the latest version. Some older DirectDraw drivers did not support page flipping so you might try downloading the latest DirectX drivers for your video board and give it another pop.

: Personally I don't think page flipping improves things much anyway. I've played TS both ways and didn't notice the difference while playing.

: Mark

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