Re: [pygame] Game stutters

[Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>]

R. Alan Monroe wrote:
> > > If the ball's just bouncing around why not do
> > > screen.fill((0,0,0),ballRect)
> > > screen.blit((ballImage,ballRect)
> > > pygame.display.update(ballRect)
> > >       
>
>   
> > I tried that on my box... didn't make any difference. My guess is it's
> > due to not being locked to vsync.
> >     
>
> Also, pythonw appears to totally crush the hard drive on each launch
> (according to sysinterals filemon), naively hunting all around the
> path for a bunch of nonexistent files, then recursively enumerating
> every folder in the \python24 tree, for some reason, which causes a
> lot of slowdowns until it's done reading.
>
> Switching the program to FULLSCREEN|DOUBLEBUFF and using flip() rather
> than update() did make it quite a bit smoother.
>
> Alan
>
>
>   
That first example I sent had an extra parenthesis.  I'm surprised it 
actually worked.
line 2 should be screen.blit(ballImage,ballRect)