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Started by steg May 21, 2003 at 6:07 AM 4 replies 300+ views

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steg

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steg

May 21, 2003 at 6:07 AM

Hi all, This may be a dumb question, but when my terrain program is running in full screen mode, the screen flickers now and then, i.e. other applications in the background can sometimes be seen. You can download this from the link in my signature if you like from the download section. Kind regards, Steve PS - is it to do with VSynch or something ? As I get older, my mind becomes more cluttered. [3d Game development]

steg

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steg

May 21, 2003 at 10:17 AM

This is driving me nuts, I cannot get rid of the screen flickering bits of other applications up onto my screen ?!

Anybody any ideas ?

Regards,
Steve

As I get older, my mind becomes more cluttered.

[3d Game development]

James Trotter

May 21, 2003 at 12:47 PM

Post your window creation code.

steg

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steg

May 21, 2003 at 2:07 PM

Finally got it to work, it was the fact that when I had created a window in my WinMain function I was doing the following :

ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_HIDE);

Which I thought didn''t matter for full screen, but it does, I now set it to SW_SHOW and all seems well :-)

Will upload it tomorrow.

Kind regards,
Steve

As I get older, my mind becomes more cluttered.

[3d Game development]

Jason2Jason

May 21, 2003 at 2:10 PM

I have a few suggestions:

1) Make sure your using a double buffered mode.

2) Check if turning V Synk on helps (though frame rates will be lowered I think)

3)make sure there are no mobile phones by the monitor! It might sound stupid this one, but its worth checking

-J

steg

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steg

May 22, 2003 at 2:33 AM

Thanks for the advice James,

But it is working fine now, it must have been the ShowWindow(SW_HIDE) call making it flicker so badly ?!

Regards,
Steve

As I get older, my mind becomes more cluttered.

[3d Game development]

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