VBGamer

Well, this depends on what will/won't be happening in the background (behind the message). If the screen will remain static, then you are in luck, because you simply have to do one alphablend of the screen (well, you will probably want two, one for the primary and one for the backbuffer), then you can just not redraw on top of it, or if you need to move the message around or something, say like a mouse cursor, you could just do a dirty rectangles method which would redraw the part of the screen you need, and alpha blend only that portion. This could be perfectly fine for speed on most computers. David