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Tim —
@cmuratori: Hey! First off just wanted to say thank you for doing Handmade Hero. Your attention to…
wasd —
You can detect the refreshrate of the monitor and set the fixed fps to that, and then when you go …
Bigpet —
I can confirm that this is not a "useless cleanup". This needs to be called before your process en…
we can still render on WM_PAINT and a longer wall clock during idle, so you cant cheat by pausing …
When window looses focus you could do even better - pause rendering, stop calling GameUpdateAndRen…
after reading the documentation more closely, it might be a good idea to call timeEndPeriod on WM_…
Turns out that the raised timer frequency is indeed automatically cancelled by Windows when the pr…
Matt —
Darn those pesky lawyers! I've got a year left in college so I'm not in the field yet, but I neve…
Yeah, since timeBeginPeriod was called at the very beginning of execution, it was implied that the…
We do not ever want to close the period, because we are trying to keep the scheduler at 1ms for th…
he is not a big fan of unnecessary cleanups, during one of his streams he talked about allowing th…
Thank you. I will try it out. I have been trying different console solutions for Windows but the o…
At line 970-971 in the source code (of day 24), it says According to the MSDN documentation for th…
Chris —
Without having VS open in front of me, I believe it's somewhere under Tools->Options->Text Editor-…
The problem is generalizing the solution. It's fairly straightforward in our implementation in HH…
I've been doing programming in various areas among other things for a couple decades. I've done e…
Cort —
I've been programming for about 20 years, including 12 years as a professional game programmer (2 …
Cort —
Looks like this must've been addressed in today's video (Day 24). Please disregard! So, was the c…
I mentioned this on the twitch channel (apparently people are on there all day?), but if anyone wa…
you can create two projects, but use a single directory, both projects will have the smae files bu…
Configurations Properties > General > Configuration Type change it from Application (.exe) to Dyna…
Project > Properties Configurations Properties > General > Configuration Type change it from Appli…
Hey guys, I'm stuck on week 5. I can follow along using the command line just fine but I prefer to…
If I understood correctly I should manage to keep up with the vsync, whatever it is, even though i…
You don't actually need the log file. You just need to store descriptions of all the structs, and…
Honestly, this is probably not the answer you were looking for, but I would run a game at somethi…
Hi, Maybe this question is off topic (or future topic) but I've been thinking about it the whole d…
I switched over to mmap() because I was thinking of doing some clever debugging/testing tools that…
Aaron —
I haven't changed anything from whatever the defaults are, at least. How would I check?