Hi Tom

I have tried this approach before but with the big animations (some have full screen frames) the graphics card fails to load them because they have a maximum texture size.

For example I have an animation which has 60 fames and each frame is 1027x768. If I tied to put that into a sprite sheet it wold be huge and from past memory most graphics cards have a max size of something like 2024 x 2024 or something like that.

When using this approach before directx just renders a white box the size of a single frame. Am I looking at this in the wrong way.

Cheers.

Oh so we are talking about such huge images. Then it's also quite clear, why are you having problems with loading times ;)

Maybe it really is time to move from this frame-by-frame animation to some video files?

maybe, maybe. for some scenarios in the game a video wont wok but i guess that's more to do with the game design than a directx issue.

Chees for the advice tho.