very slow PHAL flip times on ASUS 696 wm6

[Kzinti]

OK. I got DirectDraw to behave properly on my HTC Touch (WM6 device). Please download this and give it a shot on the Asus A696.

[GyLgames]

THIS WORKS!

The backbuffer flip is ultra fast now 1-2ms (earlier it was +30ms only the flip). Congratulation!

thx-thx

good work

[Kzinti]

Good to hear!

[GyLgames]

The next PocketHAL release will contain this?

[Kzinti]

I'd like to put it in the next release, yes. I am a bit concerned with the stability of it. It works on my HTC Touch and your Asus A696, but that's pretty much all that was tested.

I might create a 1.1 branch and keep the current 1.0.4 as a "stable" version.

But I would like to add more features to 1.1 then just a DirectDraw driver.

I know you made a donation, so if you want a banner free version of this, I can send you one directly without making it an official release.

[mm40]

Sounds like GETRAWFRAMEBUFFER is deprecated / unsupported in WM6.

I have some idea how to work around that, I'll get back to you asap.

The fact that it uses GAPI on WM6 explains why it is much slower in landscape mode.

Ok its one thing to depreciate GETRAWFRAMEBUFFER, that is fine, but on the ASUS 696 it is depreciated and they are returning 1 for the call to ExtEscape! Which causes any game looking for that info not work since they dont fill in the structure correctly, wtf?

Do all WM6 devices do this, or is this a bug in the ASUS 696 OS?