Thread: Can you guys test my FPS?

it means your tiles.dat file is corrupt

Did I include the blood spraying with the particle engine on this ver? If I didn't, open up settings.ini and change the first number to one.

I don't know why, but my computer is SLOW. I play a game called Era Online and I also get 10 FPS on it, and there are people with crappier computers than mine, and they are getting 40 FPS. Anyone know why my computer is getting so low of framerate?

Did you really like my particle engine? It took me like two days to program it. Here is the prototype:

void start_particles(int x,int y, int rangex,int rangey, int intensity, int R,int G, int B,int direction, int life,int speed,int special_effects);

x is the starting point x (duh) and y is the starting y point.

rangex is the width of it if going up down, and rangey is the width if going left right (I'm going to combine this into one thing later on).

intensity is how many pixels are going to be part of the effect

R, G, and B, is the coloration of the particles. If you are doing blood effects, I got a seperate function, mainly to do the content filter (in the full version of it on my comp, you can remove language and gore). That is why the settings.ini's first number MUST be 1 to have the blood spray effects, 0 means gore off.

Direction is, well, the direction it goes. I set up an enumeration for it, UP, UPLEFT, UPRIGHT, DOWN, DOWNLEFT, DOWNRIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT.

life is how long on average that the pixels stay before being removed.

speed is how long on average that the pixels go.

special_effects is for doing stuff like the thrust behind the player's ship.

I basically have a linked list for all the pixels, each pixel has it's own struct. I initialize the pixels in start_particles(), by making random numbers for things like speed, life, and stuff, based on the user's specifications in the calling of start_particles(). How I do it, is I make the random number's lowest number the number specified in the calling, and the highest number is the low number +6 (sorry if I confused you). Every frame I call draw_particles, which basically draws all pixels in action, and after drawing it, it does all the movement, then checks if it is the pixel's time to be deleted. If so, it deletes it from the linked list, and scoots the rest of the structs to fill it's space.

That may be confusing, but I'm bad at explaining things.

Did you all turn on your sounds, it does have music and SFX too.

PS: Another trick you can do in the settings.ini is change the resolution to 1024x768. Do this by changing the second number to either 1, or 0 (I forget).

oh yeah, if you shoot an enemy twice and it doesn't die, it just stays there, you need a patch I made (it happened on my friend's comp, it's a prob with XP sometimes).

Here is the controls if you haven't figured them out:

Enter - Close a dialogue message
Spacebar - Fire your gun
Arrow Buttons - Move your ship
Escape - Close out

There are also some debugging stuff, that only I can know, hehe.

And elchulo, you can only kill all the enemies, and then some dialogue somes up, and it returns to windows. For some reason, whenever I quit the game, it comes up with one of those illegal operation dialogue boxes. I think it's because of how I am destroying the allegro datafiles. I'm trying to fix that right now.

Here is some specification of stuff I use in this:

* Double-Buffering for flicker reduction
* MIDI music and WAV sound effects, with support for MOD files, using DirectSound
* Simple particle engine
* Mouse support (in my full version that I have, it's just EXTREMELY buggy ATM)
* Joystick (see above on why I didn't put it in this version
* 16 Bit Color, perferred to be in 800x600 resolution (I get 6FPS running 1024x768 mode)
* BMP, and RLE Sprites for graphics
* Hardware Accelerated DirectDraw
* Support for goreless mode (I think this is set at default, see my last post on info on how to turn it back on)

The reason I didn't include it is because some people already have allegro runtime, and there is no reason for them to download it again.