Author Topic: Scrolling roster  (Read 265 times)

Offline WMLute

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Scrolling roster
« on: November 19, 2007, 05:07:44 PM »
I was otd and lookin' at the roster, scrolling it w/ my wheel mouse when I noticed the ground blurring everytime I did.

ctrl i, looked @ my fps and saw a pretty big hit everytime I used my wheel mouse to scroll the roster.

odd.

so I tried just using the mouse pointer and moving the roster.  again w/ the ground blur/fps hit.

I held the scroll bar and just went up/down constantly for @ 10 sec. and managed to drop my fps from 40 to 9.

I asked some members of my squad to try it and they all got pretty hard FPS hit's when scrolling the roster.
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Offline OOZ662

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Scrolling roster
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2007, 05:24:55 PM »
Most likely the same reason you take an FPS hit from backspacing in the chat box. DirectX doesn't support the backspace, meaning it's hard-coaded into the game by HTC. Hence instead of doing one calculation to remove a letter, it has to punch through a string of code.

I bet DirectX doesn't support a scrolling roster system, too.
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