RE: [pygame] Slow performance in fullscreen mode

["Brian Bull" <Brian.Bull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Brian Bull wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My Pygame app runs fine in windowed mode, using
> > 
> >> pygame.display.set_mode((1024,768))
> > 
> > But when I switch to fullscreen mode with
> > 
> >> pygame.display.set_mode((1024,768),pygame.FULLSCREEN)
> > 
> > the display looks fine but the app speed slows down 
> dramatically. Perhaps the problem is that Pygame is emulating 
> an absent video mode in some form? 1024 x 768 is supposed to 
> be one of the video modes of this monitor...
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestions please? I would like to be 
> able to use fullscreen 1024x768 without the performance hit...
> > 
> > Thanks
> > A. 
> > 
> 
> Try throwing away all but the first mouse movement, each time 
> through the loop. That sped up my app significantly... as it 
> turned out, full screen mode was sending every xy change to 
> the app, whereas windowed mode was throwing away samples 
> between mouse movements (the preferred
> behavior.)

Yes, this worked fine, thank you Kamiche.

A.
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