Cheat Engine

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Moved my little graphics engine to direct draw from GDI for a little experiment.

Things I've learned:
It is MUCH faster to blit from video memory. The speed is nice in comparison.

It's a pain in the ass and confusing to set up and has shit documentation. Why do I have to manually calculate the location of the window and handle where it does the blits? This seems like something I shouldn't have to worry about. It's pretty straightforward once it's actually set up though.

Using DirectX is a much smarter idea. Much simpler to set up, basically free scaling, free blending, etc, etc.



http://www.filefront.com/13951310/directdraw_test.rar
It draws sierpinski triangle.

Also, as a bonus, it crashes because I was too lazy to take care of recreating surfaces when they are lost.


I think I'll try my hand at a proper real time engine next.