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Application slower when BDS not running

Apr 24th, 2008

Hi all.

I'm writing a little program that paints and animates its own form in response to the user's mouse gestures. The weird thing is:

Whenever the BDS Delphi 2006 is running and I run my application, I get a framerate of about 25 FPS. If I terminate BDS but not my application the framerate stays high.

However, if I then restart my application when BDS is not running my application runs at about 11 FPS. This is without any change to the code or executable. (This also seems to me to be a little backwards... alas.)

I've recompiled my app using Delphi 5 and it still gets the slow framerate. My only conclusion is that BDS is doing something to the system or loading some Borland/Codegear shared module that is bumping performance?

In short, does anyone know why this is happening? And where I should look to make my application get the higher framerate?

Thanks