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I feel kinda newbie-ish posting some question like this one but oh well 
I''m using DirectDraw to render graphics in a 2D environment. Good ''ol sprites. I''m aiming for a game with an SNES-like feel to it. The problem''s with animating over a background.
It''s pretty easy to simply clear the backbuffer every frame. Especially if there aren''t too many sprites or if the game is simplistic. But if a background is present, copying it back in the backbuffer every frame is terribly slow and does a number on the performance.
So my question is, is there some day to make the background static? The only solution I see would be clearing the sprites and the likes by recopying the space occupied by them every time they move, which sounds kinda messy...
I''m using DirectDraw to render graphics in a 2D environment. Good ''ol sprites. I''m aiming for a game with an SNES-like feel to it. The problem''s with animating over a background.
It''s pretty easy to simply clear the backbuffer every frame. Especially if there aren''t too many sprites or if the game is simplistic. But if a background is present, copying it back in the backbuffer every frame is terribly slow and does a number on the performance.
So my question is, is there some day to make the background static? The only solution I see would be clearing the sprites and the likes by recopying the space occupied by them every time they move, which sounds kinda messy...
