Note that hardware surfaces can actually be slower than sw surfaces for certain operations, so getting a hw surface is not necessarily going to speed things up unless you make sure you avoid operations that must copy data to and from main memory and the video card.
-Casey On Feb 25, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Simon Pickles wrote:
Hi,Specifying HWSURFACE and DOUBLEBUF for my display has no effect on my framerate.What is the correct procedure to enable hardware acceleration?I am finding pygame so slow I am considering a return to Windows and DirectX for an upcoming project.Save me! Thanks Simon -- Linux user #458601 - http://counter.li.org.