Framerate and the mouse

[lurker]

When fps gets low, the only real issues caused are buggy responsiveness to clicks and key presses and a hard to move cursor. How complicated would it be to hold the screen minus the mouse in a buffer that gets reused two or three times when fps drops far down? Is it something feasable for me to do without experience with the rendering code or should this topic go to feature requests?

[KDR_11k]

Everyx RTS I know uses an independent mouse cursor, probably possible.

[Tobi]

Impossible in fullscreen OpenGL apps, AFAIK.
(If with independent you mean hardware accelerated mouse cursor, that is.)

Though you could simulate it by rendering to a FBO, running all computationally intensive non-OpenGL stuff in a separate thread, and having the main thread just repeatedly draw quad with FBO as texture, draw the mousecursor, flip buffers, sleep a bit.

Of course that'd require a bit decent version of OpenGL, maybe even 2.0.

EDIT: fixed wording

[rattle]

Yeah most RTS games I played had an option for a software and hardware cursor where the latter does not depend on the framerate.

[ginekolog]

ye i hate it too but since ba changed thier fighter los game tend to lag muuuuch less.

[KDR_11k]

ye i hate it too but since ba changed thier fighter los game tend to lag muuuuch less.

Which has about zero bearing on Spring as an engine as there's more than just BA that it has to support.

[Gota]

Ba is the alpha and omega,the primo and the obduro.

[Gnomre]

Yeah, if only S44 had implemented your gameplay suggestions, then BA'd have some competition! Those fools!

[Gota]

How mature.
I thought you were above all this?guess you had no buisness lecturing me and snobbing me out.
We all like to think were better but than we show we really arent ha Gnome.

[Gnomre]

It only took you 119 days to formulate a response? That's got to be a new personal best!

Why don't you go start a competition or try to take over someone else's mod or create another smurf account to complain about the smurfing epidemic or shove a stick up your ass instead of resurrecting old posts making yourself look like an idio--

Oh, wait.

[Machiosabre]

ooh you are going to be so sorry you posted that come December!

[AF]

I find the 199 day reaction time hilarious. We should praise gota for giving us something to smile about rather than snipe at him for a masterful attempt at a pun

[Sheekel]

6.5 on the gota scale

[Gota]

TBh i rezzed this cause i was wondering whats going on with the mouse clicking...it really is a punch ot the gut if you wanna make more compact build icons and buttons.

And Gnome,try to not take things so personal ok? cool down...You wouldnt wanna die of a heart attack at 30,you wouldnt be able to complete s44.

[Otherside]

yans post is 0.5 on the gota scale

[aegis]

You wouldnt wanna die of a heart attack at 30,you wouldnt be able to complete s44.

..he works on IW

[Gnomre]

I secretly work on 300: The Mod: The Legend: The Subtitle

Expect a release in March 2002