Elysian Shadows

Most handily, it tells you something about the degree of "parallelity" (that word is an invention) between two vectors. If a and b are vectors then if: a*b = 0 , the vectors are orthogonal if a*b = |a||b| then they are parallel and coincident in direction. If the dot product is negative bu...

Well...you could write your own simplistic OS. So then when you're given the "meat & taters" of something like Windows or even Linux, you wouldn't know what you were looking at anyways ;) Linux, Unix, Windows, OS-X, everything you're familiar with is all monolithic kernel. So there's n...

I'd wager it on being an SDL implementation issue or some incongruency with your hardware.

There may be a technicality in the API presentation of their events system that is causing some unpredicted stalling. It's clear your bus is not choked up, so...

In this event, be sure you call SDL_PumpEvents. This is a once per frame call as is the keyboard/mouse state query. In this case, SDL_PumpEvents would probably be the culprit. You may wrap the call around a timer (get the time and after the call) so that you can see exactly how long the call is taki...

Does it do this with all events? Or just mouse wheel events? If you don't have access to a code profiler, try using SDL_GetKeyboardState or SDL_GetMouseState. Be sure you look this up because I think you have to pump the event queue before calling this. Does it change? If it changes (for the better)...

My suggestions would have been: 1) Absolutely get the 4670K. The SandyBridge and Haswell's overclock amazingly even on air. They're not that much more expensive and yes, clock speed still matters. 2) I would have saved some cash on memory and the PSU and gone with the GTX660. The GTX650Ti is very un...

Link is broken, but feed your ears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg5UemrYLfk

Welcome to the nebulous nature of the modern OpenGL API... It's really quite crap. I absolutely abhor the API. I've written at great length about it and as predicted, it's not going to change anytime soon (ever). The best bet is to shoot as high as you can go which will be limited by your developmen...

So would it be a bad idea to use the old OpenGL? I mean, is it still used professionally by anybody? No, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea. There are machines in medical, simulations, and in professional settings that still run OpenGL code from 10+ years ago. You're not going to see support for...

Do I have to understand GLSL? Technically, no. OpenGL versioning, to be frank, is atrocious. The core specification is defined but not always enforced. OpenGL is implemented by the driver which is supplied by the vendor. Despite many functions and extensions being deprecated, the driver is still fr...

Well, rendering IS a pipeline because you have a stream of data coming in and it is progressively modified by multiple units until you get some different output. However, simply having two units that both produce and consume isn't a pipeline at all. I'm not giving advice really...this is just....wha...

Myehhhh -_- ...no, still not seeing it that way. Looks more like a stream, really if you're just reading files and doing other little things to them. There would be several stages that each do different things. With that you usually have a stream of data that gets progressively modified by the diffe...

It does not appear so in this case.

A pipelined architecture refers to one with several distinct stages that are linked by some memory bus or transport mechanism. Also you have the concept of a producer/consumer there where stage B consumes what stage A produced and on down the line.

You must specify to us the OS you are using here. May the good lord bless you should you decide to slog through the muddy swamp that is the Linux sound device.

Windows?
See here 007: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... s.85).aspx

Well, if it's the bottom one then that sure is ambitious...you should help me out XD