Game Graphics - Quality Dependent FPS Control?

Question

I\'m currently making a game (in vb.net) that uses the Graphics class to draw most of the game objects, but i\'ve run into the old problem of performance. To combat the lagging

Answer 1

I have made a sample WPF project similar to what you need, just to give you an idea how powerful and beautiful and fast WPF is compared to ancient technologies.

It looks like this:

It's a little too much code to post it here entirely, so here is a link to a RAR file with the full source.

The main UI XAML is this:

<Window x:Class="SamsGameSample.MainWindow"
     xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:SamsGameSample"
        Title="SamsGameSample"
        PreviewKeyDown="Window_PreviewKeyDown"
        PreviewKeyUp="Window_PreviewKeyUp"
        SizeChanged="Window_SizeChanged"
        WindowState="Maximized">
    <Window.Resources>
        <DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:Player}">
            <Ellipse Fill="Green" Stroke="Black" Height="{Binding Size.Height}" Width="{Binding Size.Width}"/>
        </DataTemplate>

        <DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:Enemy}">
            <Ellipse Fill="Red" Stroke="Black" Height="{Binding Size.Height}" Width="{Binding Size.Width}"/>
        </DataTemplate>
    </Window.Resources>

    <DockPanel>
        <DockPanel.Background>
            <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0,0" EndPoint="1,0" Opacity=".6">
                <GradientStop Color="Blue" Offset="0"/>
                <GradientStop Color="Red" Offset=".5"/>
                <GradientStop Color="Green" Offset="1"/>
            </LinearGradientBrush>
        </DockPanel.Background>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Background="#70000000" DockPanel.Dock="Top">
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding Lives, StringFormat='Lives: {0}'}" Margin="10" Foreground="AliceBlue"/>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding Score, StringFormat='Score: {0}'}" Margin="10" Foreground="AliceBlue"/>
        </StackPanel>
        <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding GameObjects}" x:Name="GameArea">
            <ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
                <Style TargetType="ContentPresenter">
                    <Setter Property="Canvas.Left" Value="{Binding Location.X}"/>
                    <Setter Property="Canvas.Top" Value="{Binding Location.Y}"/>
                </Style>
            </ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
            <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
                <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                    <Canvas IsItemsHost="True"/>
                </ItemsPanelTemplate>
            </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
        </ItemsControl>
    </DockPanel>
</Window>

• Compare the amount of code in my project (and the cleanliness of it) to the multiple hacks you need to do almost anything in winforms.
• Also compare the performance, and the resolution independence.