Bitmap.SetPixel(x,y, Color) too slow

Question

So currently I\'m creating a 1000x1000 bitmap and it\'s spending about .3 seconds simply calling the Bitmap.SetPixel() function.

I\'m actually only drawing probably

Answer 1

Modern blockbuster video games do all the pixel setting behind the scenes in hardware; they give the hardware a buffer of geometries and the highly parallelized hardware does all the math. OpenGL and DirectX are APIs for talking to the hardware.

Search gamedev.net for some tutorials.