thanks for trying it out for me! I've done a little extra reading and found that TDirectDrawSurfaces are not hardware supported (please correct me if I'm wrong!). I'm going to undo the work I've done now on making use of two surfaces as I need it to be hardware supported.

If anyone else wants to try the game out and has any comments about it, I'd be glad to hear what you have to say!

Basically the game is a MMORPG version of pokemon. The idea being that you explore an alien planet capturing alien creatures as you go. Still to be implement are:

Player Vs. NPC Battles
Player Vs. Player Battles
Quest Areas....

Thanks again!