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Horses said:
Probably there is also a possibility to optimize the code.
The Cpu load is in windowed mode very high-even on very fast machines.
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Well, of
course it is as it is a
game.
While (running)
pump graphics to screen
if (check things)react to things
end;
At a minimum, it will be cycling the colour palette even if you are not doing anything (like moving units) - so you can have nice billowing smoke and water effects etc.
The only games that will not do this are those based on the windows message loop principle - do nothing, wait till the end user pokes a key. Only simple little card games and so on can use that strategy (like those provided with windows - minesweeper etc).
If you want an example of the simple windows application at work - run the GameOptions dialogue (
not the game) and check CPU usage, as that is a simple windows app, reacting to user mouse pokes.