Hardware Acceleration and Uses

[Pete]

I'm rethinking the use of hardware acceleration in SCREEN 0. The reason is the very high CPU readings. A lot of times business apps just sit open all day, and I can't imagine burning up the insides of a computer by refreshing hardware images all the time the system sits idle. This leave us with solutions like the old days of using a timed screensaver. I don't miss those days. Another, and more complex method, would be checking for idle time and making a copy of the current page, calling up a graphics screen, and using that to display the image while routing everything else to the mouse/keyboard subroutine. When some action is detected, the process would have to reconstruct the current screen in SCREEN 0... and that could be a real PITA.

For pure graphics uses for speed in gaming, moving multiple objects around the screen, even for complex screen scrolling events, you can't beat hardware acceleration, but mixing it with SCREEN 0 does come at a hefty CPU price, which has me leaning in the direction of graphics conversion for a few apps I want to update.

So I'm curious, what have those of you who have tried this feature think?

Pete