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Old 03-22-2003, 07:13 PM   #118
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Originally posted by Beagle
A few comments: First, when I try to drag and drop the window with the control tabs it moves OK but the space where it was is solid black. With little effort I could black out the whole screen.
The Direct3D world is completely suspended/destroyed when the Settings window comes up. Creating and destroying the 3D world to re-paint the background every time you move the window would make moving the window very slow. The other possibility, taking a snapshot of the screen before the Settings panel comes up, could take 6MB or more of RAM on certain systems.

Third, is there someplace to read about frame rate? This seems to be important, but it's not clear why.
If the animation of the Aquarium is smooth, then don't worry too much about this. You can do a LOT of tweaking if you are into that sort of thing.

Many thanks for all the hard work that went into the upgrade and also MAT. Can they be combined?
That's the beauty of the new platform. Bugs fixed in 1 program fix bugs in everything.
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