WM 2005 - Slow ?

[QuietBloke]

Its me again. I have been playing around with the GameAPI and I got a sprite just moving accross the screen. I was disapointed to see how jerky the movement was even with just one small sprite on the screen.
This morning I made an .EXE file and copied it over to an older Windows 2003 machine. When both machines run the demo mine looks jerky moving several pixels at a time.. the older machine is nice an smooth.

So.. carrying on from my other thread it seems not only does my machine have a white border on two edges but it seems to refresh the display very slowly.
My machine has a VGA display and is running WM2005. Is this a known issue ?... is it perhaps because I only have 64Mb of RAM ?.. though I am not running anything else so I have 20Mb available.

Its a shame... This new machine has a built in keyboard and I was hoping to be able to play around on it while travelling but if I cant get any decent speed on it I lose the urge to bother.

[zehlein]

may be you have some energy saving option on that slows down your machines speed?

[QuietBloke]

As far as I can tell the only power saving options on the machine seem to be setting the brigthness and how long to wait before switching the light off when on batteries and how long to wait before switching the device off.

[zehlein]

Maybe it is some kind of an automated mode. What machine are you using?

[QuietBloke]

Its an O2 XDA Exec.. apparently also known as a QTek9000 or an Orange SPV M5000. Its a VGA display so it may be that the re-scaling is slow... any idea if the re-scaling is done by windows ?.. or is it the Graphics API thats doing it ?...
maybe tonight when I get some time Ill try writing a VGA version of the app and see if that speeds things up.

[kornalius]

I have a Dell Axim x51v and unfortunately the GameAPI is slow on it. You need to use some hack. It's not the GameAPI's fault, it is the VGA display that is slow.