woo! windows calls to crash my machine, I gotta try that out- alright to update again, I am using all of teh screen so I got rid of the color fill, but still I get 7 frames per second, I think optimization is what I need, but I''m drawing tiles from an array so how could I access my data members without a lot of dereferencing? I probably need to include some source code to make this make sense, but I don''t want to take up too much space in teh discussion- essentially- I have a vector of vectors of my class of tiles. I pass a pointer to this array to my display tile function and it goes through and blits each one to the back buffer. I''m thinking about jsut having a huge offscreen surface(my current *read: bad* idea) that it initialized with the array of tiles and then the display coudl jsut take 640x480 chunks out of it each blit- any further thoughts?
-Fnj