Hello, i am a relatively new programmer, and i've just recently been tapping into DirectDraw and it's world of possibilities ;P I'm a total newbie when it comes to this stuff, so i read some toutorials and stuff, and then began to make my first app. I am using VB.NET in VS.NET and i managed to make some kind of enumeration and a simple fullscreen app with flashy lines bouncing around and stuff. DirectDraw is easy and will work very good for me. However, i have a small problem. My program, even though i have a tick test to limit the fps to around 32, takes up 100% cpu constantly. My main loop has only a call to a kind of showNextFrame function that won't execute if there hasn't been a set nuber of ticks since the last call, and a doEvents call. Any help would be appreciated, i probably just forgot something very crucial in my noobish attempt :) Thank you!

I suspect you're always calling PeekMessage() in you main loop.

Try to put your PeekMessage() together with the showNextFrame() function.

Thanks alot man, i'll try that when i get home!