From: arg AT whangomatic DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk (Andrew R. Gillett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Vsync!
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 01:10:37 +0100
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp, Knutte wrote:
> Its suppose to make the game slow down to refreshrate of the screen. Maybe
> not the best way of making things smooth but the program seem to ignore the
> vsync(). If I remove it the result is the same...

You should make a routine which uses a timer to work out when to draw the 
screen. This has the advantage that your game won't run in slow motion on 
a slow PC, it will just drop some frames. If you can't work out the 
technique yourself, I can send you some examples.

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