What the heck does this mean?

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[aylwyne]

While on that topic, would anyone be able to tell me what VBL does?

Your monitor draws the picture on the screen from top to bottom many many times per second. Without this synchronization, it's possible for the frame that is being drawn to change partway through the refresh of the monitor. So like the top half of the screen would be drawn with one frame of animation and the lower half of the screen with the next frame of animation.

VBL synchronization (v-sync) ensures that the frames of animation occur between refreshes of the monitor. So if the next frame is ready to be drawn, it will wait until the current monitor refresh is complete to start drawing it on the screen. This can cause a slowdown in the frame rate but will eliminate monitor refreshes that contain parts of two frames.

[jfoxp]

Your monitor draws the picture on the screen from top to bottom many many times per second. Without this synchronization, it's possible for the frame that is being drawn to change partway through the refresh of the monitor. So like the top half of the screen would be drawn with one frame of animation and the lower half of the screen with the next frame of animation.

VBL synchronization (v-sync) ensures that the frames of animation occur between refreshes of the monitor. So if the next frame is ready to be drawn, it will wait until the current monitor refresh is complete to start drawing it on the screen. This can cause a slowdown in the frame rate but will eliminate monitor refreshes that contain parts of two frames.

Bah, beat me to it. ;P

What he just described is what people commonly call "tearing," at least around here. I can imagine people in other areas referring to it as other things, but I've only ever called it tearing myself. It may be industry wide, but heck, I don't count on that after learning the whole "Verticle Blank" part. Can't say I've ever heard blank used in the term.

[dazman76]

The word blank is used to refer to the time between the cathode gun hitting the bottom of the display area, and returning to the top/start position. I'm not actually sure if the screen is blank during that time (i.e. no picture displayed at all), it's just that the gun isn't active. Maybe someone knows about that?

[zumwalt]

fox -

you've been on their side of things, don't bash them

I am on there side of things, just not with there company, and yes, its pointless coding, or rather, bad management of coders (not the coders themself, I blame it on management)

No one still knows what
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Stands for.
I never heard of it in France, so I don't think its a french thing.
Well, it was never said by anyone in Pluvinage, Montpelier, of Paris.
Maybe its something local to there home town, or some slang used at there work, or something.

So what on earth is the meaning behind it?
Is it (and the British know this one), the peace sign, with the fingers curling twords the individual holding up there hand?

It really sounds like an insult to me.
Enquiring minds what to know.

[jfoxp]

fox -
I am on there side of things, just not with there company, and yes, its pointless coding, or rather, bad management of coders (not the coders themself, I blame it on management)

No one still knows what
1 HI SIR!

Stands for.
I never heard of it in France, so I don't think its a french thing.
Well, it was never said by anyone in Pluvinage, Montpelier, of Paris.
Maybe its something local to there home town, or some slang used at there work, or something.

So what on earth is the meaning behind it?
Is it (and the British know this one), the peace sign, with the fingers curling twords the individual holding up there hand?

It really sounds like an insult to me.
Enquiring minds what to know.

Again, I point out that it takes almost no time at all to add trivial little things like this.

As for "side of things", I don't mean being affiliated with them. I mean getting down and dirty and trying to code some of these things yourself. Until you've actually participated in game development, I don't want to see dev bashing. It's not as easy as some of you make it out to be.

[dguy1]

Looks to me like "Aye Aye Sir" in cyber game speak.
Kind of like "teh" = the
"pwn" = own

[bcharles]

As long as we're on this, here's an easier one. (i assume)

What does "kk" mean? It seems to be used to mean ok, but that seems kind of pointless, so I'm guessing there must be something more to it.

[amcyr]

As long as we're on this, here's an easier one. (i assume)

What does "kk" mean? It seems to be used to mean ok, but that seems kind of pointless, so I'm guessing there must be something more to it.

I take kk to imply a bit of impatience.

[danadita]

As long as we're on this, here's an easier one. (i assume)

What does "kk" mean? It seems to be used to mean ok, but that seems kind of pointless, so I'm guessing there must be something more to it.

Somebody once told me it was a take-off of Joe Pesci's (sp) speech pattern of saying "ok" during one of those Mel Gibson movie series.... (just went totally blank on which one). Anyway, he was always saying "ok ok ok ok" and that went to just taping the one key to say ok. *shrug*