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Asked: 2026-05-20T16:32:31+00:00

I’m trying to do a project that need to handles very large amount of

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I’m trying to do a project that need to handles very large amount of simple 2D objects, and of course needs to draw them. For that, I need a good C++ library that can handle large amount of “sprites”.

I’ve been trying Qt, because I thought their “40,000 chip” demo was very impressive. However, with a bit of toying, it seems my computer has lot of trouble managing 160,000 chips. I don’t know the technical details why it’s slow (CPU? Bad OpenGL’s GPU usage? Qt’s bad for very large number of items?)

So, I’ve been searching the web for a library that suits my need. But I couldn’t find any, mainly because no library seems to say “Hey, I’m good at managing 1,000,000 objects!”, but I’m sure some libraries are more capable than others.

I don’t need a library as “good” as the SDL, it doesn’t matter if I don’t have joystick support or whatever. I just need to display, zoom, rotate and move a large number of simple 2D objects.

Thanks!

P.S : I’ve tested Ogre3D. I wonder how they manage to handle 15K triangles and run at 100fps on my computer in their demo program. And, it’s in 3D! Does it scale well if I go to 150K triangles?

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  1. Editorial Team

    To my knowledge no mainstream videogame exists that renders 1,000,000 2D sprites (particles) in one frame. A research project from 2004 showed how it could be done, however: Building a Million Particle System

    In my opinion, when videogames finally do render 1,000,000 particles in a frame, they will do so via OpenCL or DirectCompute, because this avoids the famous fill-rate hardware bottleneck that makes it impractical to render particles in OpenGL or Direct3D.

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