Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
At that point, I switched to using XNA for the drawing and everything was blazingly fast.
I remember that, you're welcome.

@NinjaNic, if you're somewhat serious about games and graphics in VB.NET, I'd look at XNA. As Shaggy mentioned, it's blazingly fast for drawing graphics to the screen. I still have plenty of examples and many are posted on here. Of course, since XNA is no longer being actively maintained by Microsoft, you may want to explore MonoGame, the open-source free, actively developed, cross-platform successor to XNA.