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Hello! It's been a journey but we're finally about to transition from this sticky thread to a tha…
I think it's more likely that every entity will have its own position and if it is tied to another…
Oh! Sorry Martins! I feel dumb. You covered this early on and I forgot. My answers are right th…
_ftol2 and _ftol2_sse functions have their own non-standard calling convention. Argument in ST(0) …
bimbinel —
I'm not sure if this topic has been discussed in an episode already but I was wondering if the gam…
Hello Martins! Its those rxRatio/ryRatio variables that take on such values as 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, et…
It's always a judgement call and it depends a lot on the target platform. If we do want to port to…
Judging by the log you posted, I would suspect that the lock file fixes it.Casey
I think the reason is that all the calculations happens on the float, that is twice as fast as dou…
I haven't got to the lock file yet. I'll power through and see what happens. Thanks.
Have you started using the lock file yet? In later episodes we use a lock file to ensure that the…
Including %random% in the -PDB option results in the same behaviour. And as far I can see my build…
Pent —
I'm using VS2015 and it seems to work fine for me. Make sure your build.bat is correct!
I'm not aware of anything that would prevent dll reloading to work in VS2015. Afaik it should work…
Hello, Enjoying the series so far, early days though. It's been good going up until today. I just …
In my experience, thread affinity masking is pretty safe to ship in game code. YMMV, of course...…
Yes, your concerns for shipping code are valid. You could first get which thread is running on and…
Ok so I used SetThreadAffinityMask to limit my thread to only one core and now the results of rdts…
My cpu is Haswell i7-5930k. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try some of these things and see what…
There are a few oddities in TSC that can depend on your CPU architecture and also whether you have…
I also saw some inconsistencies with my CPU (even negative timespans B) ). What helped me was to …
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me understand this. I'm using __rdtsc to profile my game …
Brad B —
I'm using Visual Studio 2015 for the project. Just had this old version in the archives.
Wow that really is old school! The oldest version I would go would have been VC6 but VC1.52 is som…
Brad B —
I am enjoying this series that Casey has done. Takes me back to the old days. I haven't programmed…
Thanks guys for your detailed response I guess I need to see how Casey implemented it first on tha…
Have you guys heard of voltron? It's not exactly a debugger but it lets you create views of gdb/l…
co.nl.on —
On Day 32 and I must have missed this... is there a particular reason that Casey uses an int32+flo…