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Originally Posted by Hezzy002

Wait, no math or rendering as in a 64x64 loop without transformation or rendering? What else are you doing? It sounds like something odd is going on if you're getting significant performance drops from things other than what should most intensive parts.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant by math and rendering, of course.

Putting each polygon on its own layer, or at least ensuring neighboring polygons don't have the same layer should prevent Graal from trying to sort them. Normally Graal sorts images by their bottom left corner, which, at least on some of the older clients, caused huge performance drops because it was done every frame without regard to the previous frame (It should store the new, sorted data so the majority of the stuff is still sorted).

Dynamically scaling up would drastically increase performance and visual quality..

My mistake, it was disabling everything other than the polygons. I ran a 64*64 loop and only displayed polygons, with nothing else going on in the loop, and that's what caused the massive slowdown. Even without textures applied. I will have to try the layer thing, but I doubt it would make much of a difference in extreme cases. The fact that I can render an entire level with this perspective with no slowdown(while only have some minor visual distortion), is quite an accomplishment in Graal, imo.