I''ve been told both. That you should avoid Multithreding as it''s unnecassary and that you should use multithreading to keep things seperate. Well a while back (like 4months) a bunch of people did a bunch of studying of commercial game with a program that displayed all current threads and there owners and stuff like that.

Anyhow it appears that *All* (That were examined) had at least 2 threads running at all times. Also some major games.. I think StarCraft but don''t quote me (Look for the thread) had something like 5 to 7 threads going at a time. So it seems that the big boys do it so why shouldn''t we?

I''m sure there''s a reason behind it I don''t know but if the guys making the money do it, I''d say it''s a safe bet to work that a way! ;-)

Hope things work out for you!
See ya,
Ben

In Java, if you want flickerless animation you have to have a minimum of two threads. Kind of a downer, but multithreading isn''t that bad in Java {plus anything multithreaded instantly becomes multiprocessor.}