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I was compiling yesterday, and the code was getting 70FPS. Today, I compiled the same program, and it runs at half the speed. ditto for *all* my *untouched archives*!!! For some reason, pds just spontaniously started churning out crap! Considering the fact that I plan on releasing a demo soon with all the improvements, and the fact that the original(as I like to brag) runs at 60FPS on a 233, to say I'm desperate for an answer would be an understatement on a massive scale.

Is there *anything* which would cause PDS to start compiling everything to run really, really slowly? Would anyone with PDS be willing to do me a favour and try compiling my latest code so I can at least release a demo running at more than 45FPS on my 1600+?!

I'd do it, but you'd have to give me the settings. I can't seem to compile in PDS with my current settings.

Link?

Have you enabled the /ah switch at PDS loading?
Have you added DYNAMIC at the start of the program?
Habe you enabled Include DEBUGGING information at compiling?
PDS may have a lot of other switches i dont know....

that might alter some CMOS setting you have that tells your CPU to run at half-speed? (My laptop lets me do that. I wish it didn't.) However, now that I remember, I've used two different computers (one of them's sitting up in my computer room upstairs and the other one's at work) that have key sequences that when you press them togehter "turbo mode" gets turned off and the CPU slows down. Did you perhaps press one of those key-sequences by accident? (But I'd think that rebooting would've fixed that.)

I don't know what it was, but the compiler was at fault. I upgraded to VBDOS, and was amused by a very nice 88FPS. ^_^

386 arch optimizations too!