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Mouse lag

Started by Gf11speed Mar 10, 2000 at 10:38 AM 2 replies 600+ views

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Mar 10, 2000 at 10:38 AM

While working with the mouse, there is a particular lag. Anyhow, I''m doing it like this: int mouseX,mouseY; mouseX+=mouse_state.lX; mouseY+=mouse_state.lY; DrawBitmap(Cursor,mouseX,mouseY); Is there any way I can eliminate this lag? Do you know exactly what I mean when I say mouse lag? It can''t possibly be the computer, I have a 600mhz, 64RAM, blah blah... Thanks for you time.

Ridcully

Mar 10, 2000 at 1:57 PM

i heard there is an article on gamesdev about rendering the mouse cursor in another thread. this should be what you are searching for

Aeetes

Mar 13, 2000 at 7:44 AM

How often is mouse_state getting updated? Are you manually updating mouse_state by processing buffered messages from the mouse? If you are using buffered messages, make sure you poll the mouse an appropriate number of times per second. Because you could get a lagged mouse, if say you''re only updating the mouse position once for every frame you render, even if the frame rate is maxxed at the monitor refresh rate.

Gf11speed

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Gf11speed

Mar 13, 2000 at 8:23 PM

Thanks, Aeetes! I updated the mouse_state twice-per-frame and it abolished the lag. Thanks a lot, I learned something:
the more you update the mouse per-frame, the more sensitive the mouse.

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