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Dark GDK / Getting accurate game frame rate?

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JoeOh
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Posted: 1st Jan 2011 23:28
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I know that DarkGDK has it's sync capped at 60 display frames per second. But what I would like to know is what the actual frame rate the computer is running at in the background. It would be a good gauge for me to know how much to put in a program and it's also a curiosity issue for me as well.

Anyone?

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Mireben
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2011 13:12 Edited at: 2nd Jan 2011 13:16
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It's not capped any more. Since the Dark GDK 7.3 update (released one and a half years ago), there are commands to switch off vertical sync (dbSetDisplayModeAntialias or dbSetDisplayModeVSync), so you can have as high frame rate as your computer can achieve.

EDIT: P.S. If you want, you can separate display update and other game processing, by introducing a timer and only updating the display with dbSync when a certain time has passed. Then you can count separately how many "game loops" your program can do until one display update happens.
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