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April 5th 2003, 02:37 PM
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Dude, Ivan, learn something about programming then talk. Every mathmatical calculation uses ram to hold the values or certian things (moving the map, calculation the position of sprites based on depth dots, reading the mouse position, which is done even millisecond, and tons more.). As for video ram, video ram is useally 10 time faster than ram. Video Ram is what controls what is displayed on your screen, when the graphcis are called for, the graphics are copied from video ram location, to the primary buffer in the video card. If stored in system ram, the grpahics in the system ram has to be copied from the system ram to the video ram, and the transfered to the primary buffer (the copying part make it 5-10 times slower).

In a nut shell. Everytime you move your mouse, press a key, or when a program calls a command, the program read and writes to memory. Even when you computer is sitting idle, every program is reading a writting to ram. Everytime you do this in WDE, WDE is making calculations, and drawing the screen. But unlike programs like DinkEdit, WDE doesn't do anything is your computer is idle.

So Ivan, not to be rude, but know what you are talking about next time before trying ot strike a arguement.