Slow down question

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Will (Posted 2005) [#1]

My program has begun to get slower, just by running. It drops from 60fps to around 40 fps in 50 seconds of running. I cant think of any serious operations i've added to it, and I cant place exactly when this slowdown happened. One thing I did, was switch what was a 400 item array over to a TList, which gets this done to it alot (but not more than the array did) for i:foodpellet = eachIn foodlist 'stuff next any ideas as to whether that slows me down, or what else might be causing a fairly consistent slowdown over time? foodlist is staying about the same size as I run, but for some reason, the longer it runs the slower it gets.

Amon_old (Posted 2005) [#2]

Are you calling FLUSHMEM before you flip in your main game loop?

Will (Posted 2005) [#3]

no what is the call to make? just flushmem()? And what does it do? (sorry, i have no training in programming beyond a highschool class 2 years ago, this is probably obvious) Edit - Done, thanks, fixed everything! I was afraid it was gonna be something like "Tlists ruin everything" and then I would have to rewrite like 200 lines. Such a simple solution, thanks alot.