Hey, I recently found out the following: I set up dx7 in fullscreen with a backbuffer. For my texture I used a LPDIRECTXSURFACE7 and loaded the bitmap into it. For texturing I locked the backbuffer and the texturesurface and copied between them. Result 8fps Ok, it''s for a free directional tunnel on a p233 Now, I replaced the texturesurface with a short[640*480] buffer for my texture (16BPP). Now I copied shorts from the buffer into my locked backbuffer pointer. Result 22fps How can this happen? Is a DXSurface that slow? Or might it be that the surface was in VIDEO memory (dunno) and the read-to-SYS-mem-operation is so slow? Can someone explain? Gr, BoRReL

Ahh thank you,

I tried the following:
instead of locking the backbuffer and writing the data I
made a temporary SYSMEM surface instead.
After I was finished, I did a BltFast() to the backbuffer.

This was actually little slower than writing to the backbuffer (in videomem) directly ???

Gr,
BoRReL