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by ghorwin
Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:07 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Stop rendering and save battery power
Replies: 3
Views: 831

Re: Stop rendering and save battery power

:D Awesome, thanks both of you - actually, the combination of both suggestions does the trick:

a) I detect the unfocusing of the window with isWindowActive() and whenever the window isn't active I use sleep(10)
b) when the mouse focus is elsewhere in the GUI, I also set the scene to sleep(10), and ...
by ghorwin
Mon Nov 25, 2019 7:59 am
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Stop rendering and save battery power
Replies: 3
Views: 831

Stop rendering and save battery power

Hi there,

first of all, hi to the community (I'm new to Irrlicht) and a big compliment about this engine! Awesome.

Quick general question: when a scene is not moved by a user and not animated itself, is it possible to prevent render updates so that the graphics card won't have to refresh the view ...