Sprite Candy demo problems

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josk(Posted 2008) [#1]
I have been looking at the demo's for Sprite Candy which look great.

They work perfect on my laptop but on my main pc I have problems.

Basically Blasteroids slows to a crawl, fps shows at over 2000 though. I looked in task manager and one of the cores is at full usage.
Some of the other demos have the same effect.

No problems with other games etc.

Any ideas?


Mortiis(Posted 2008) [#2]
What is your graphics card? onboard? updated the drivers?


josk(Posted 2008) [#3]
Graphics card is geforce 8800GT(512mb). Installing new drivers now 175.19, old ones were 174.93. Not that old but might be an issue.

Forgot to mention processor is a Quad core, thought that might be the problem.

New drivers installed, still same problem.


Mortiis(Posted 2008) [#4]
What is your OS? Maybe Vista causing problems.


josk(Posted 2008) [#5]
XP, had vista but changed back to xp because of issues with games. My laptop is vista though with no problems.

I will try my daughters pc, my old gaming pc. If it works on that I will proberly go ahead and purchase as I have not seen any problems with Sprite candy from anyone else just good reviews..
I do most of my Blitz work on my laptop but I like to try things on an xp machine as well.

I'm looking at Fast image lib as well but Sprite Candy seemed better for me.


josk(Posted 2008) [#6]
Went ahead and purchased Sprite Candy.

The demos that were causing the trouble are fine in the full download, strange.
Anyway had a quick look through and I think I'm going to have some fun adding some new effects to my games. I will finish one one day.

Thanks for the suggestions.