Re: [pygame] How fast is pygame meant to be?

[Pete Shinners <shredwheat@attbi.com>]

Christian Perfect wrote:
> down to around 15/20 fps when there are lots of frags on screen. I think my
> question's answered, then - don't use pygame for pixel plotting :P

this is true. any intense pixel work will definitely show up on the python 
scale of speed. if we needed we could probably hardcode some of the effect 
down and gain a little extra speed. the only fortunately thing is that 
python mixes easily with C, so particle systems could be handled elsewhere 
inside a game.


> Another observation - hardware acceleration doesn't seem to be available in
> windowed mode. Is it meant to be?

true, this is how SDL works. when using a window SDL doesn't even bother 
with directx acceleration. there's nothing technical keeping that from 
working, it just sadly has never been written for SDL.



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