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From: "Rikki Prince" <netyaroze@rprince.dircon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ordering tables, damned sons 'o' bitches!
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 00:04:53 +0100
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> 1)First ordering table is drawn...
> 2)Only top ten lines or so of second ordering table are drawn (and these
> flicker like they're only drawn on one buffer)
> At first I thought that maybe the gpu just couldn't draw it fast enough
but
> surely if I'm using DrawSync's then the frame rate would just decrease and
> everything would be drawn fine.

I'll put this forward, just in case something 'obviouse-once-you-know-it'
has been overlooked: have you got a large enough PACKET area? Is this a
possible cause? I only say it as you mention displaying most but not all of
the image, and some of it flickering. It shouldn't be a problem as most
people define a massive PACKET size. However this is a fixed amount. Does
anyone set the PACKET size dependant on the number of primitives etc?
Anyway, it's just an idea in case you've overlooked it ...

> Please help!!!
>
> Scott


Rikki

PS please don't shout at me for being dumb! ;)