Is my images hardware accelerated???

Question

hello guys,
i'm testing my game engine currently
in my p4 1.7ghz, unknown s*ck gfx card
i got only 40 fps for displaying 900 sprites (32x32) in windowed mode using bufferstrategy
and my question is:
is my images hardware accelerated?
why i got only 40 fps? how fast normally it should be with your code?
i saw on other games the fps could reach 1000++ fps!?!?
is my images loading technique that wrong and i got no hw accel
(how to test the image hw accel or not?)
or it's just my gfx card that s*ck
(i haven't tried the games that reach 1000++ fps yet)
or there's something wrong with my engine :(
please check this http://www.mycgiserver.com/~goldenstudios/test.zip
and tell me the fps you got, and your spec
running: java -cp golden_0_1_1.jar TestCase [-fullscreen] [-nobuff]
-fullscreen : to run in fullscreen mode
-nobuff : run without bufferstrategy
i load images using this:
    public static final BufferedImage getImage(URL url, Color keycolor) throws Exception {
        Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(url);
        waitForResource(image);
        Image alphaImage = applyMask(image, keycolor);
        BufferedImage bufferedImage = gc.createCompatibleImage(
                alphaImage.getWidth(null), alphaImage.getHeight(null), Transparency.BITMASK);
        Graphics2D g = (Graphics2D) bufferedImage.createGraphics();
        g.setComposite(AlphaComposite.Src);
        g.drawImage(alphaImage, 0, 0, null);
        g.dispose();
        return bufferedImage;
    }thank you in advance

Answer 1

75fps fullscreen (vsync locked)then the bufferstrategy works! if it locks on 75 fps, then why there's a game with 1000++ fps???
try to turn off bufferstrategy, it should be no vsync locked, am i right?
java -cp %CLASSPATH%;golden_0_1_1.jar TestCase -nobuff
100-125fps windowed (timer resolution limited?)wow, that's mean my gfx card is cr*p, it's about 3 times than mine, 40 fps
Remove the timer altogether, your testcase will then give some useful performance metricsis that mean looping without Thread.sleep()?
try using GAGE timer, remove the comments at initEngine() method, and of course need timer.dll and the jar in class path
     protected void initEngine() {
          super.initEngine();
          bsTimer = new com.golden.gamedev.engine.timer.GageTimer();
     }thank you so much Abuse