Tagged Questions
1
vote
2answers
219 views
Recommended formats to store bitmaps in memory?
I'm working with general purpose image rendering, and high-performance image processing, and so I need to know how to store bitmaps in-memory. (24bpp/32bpp, compressed/raw, etc)
What is the "usual" ...
1
vote
2answers
195 views
How to deal with large open worlds?
In most games the whole world is small enough to fit into memory, however there are games where this is not the case, how is this archived, how can the game still run fluid even though the world is so ...
3
votes
1answer
389 views
Can glTexImage2D() use an already existing memory block?
Can I use glTexImage2D() and / or glTexSubImage2D() (or maybe there's some other method I don't know about) with an already existing block of memory, instead of always uploading the changed pixels? I ...
12
votes
3answers
919 views
Is there any documentation comparing/contrasting C++ standard library implementations?
(This is not game programming per se, but I'm certain if I asked this on SO I'd get told not to prematurely optimize, even though history tells us every large game ends up worrying about these ...
