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Stevie
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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 22:18
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Ideally what should a games frame rate be???

i want to be able to use my game on 1280,1024 mode but it seems to hamper the frame rate
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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 22:32
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Anything above 30 should be fine - anything higher is just wasted because you can't see it unless it causes tearing on the screen

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Stevie
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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 22:37
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Thats cool. My game is running at 51 FPS - for some reason i thought it needed to be around 70.

What concerns me though if the game runs on this machine - P4 1.5Ghz at this - will it run exceptionally faster on a 3.0ghz machine and in effect the game would like like light speed?????
Obviously i wouldnt want this to happen - i want a constant game on both machnes.


Also effects like Set Reflection shading etc - as they are quite intensive - is there a way of turning them off - when they are not required on screen??
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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 23:38
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It will run at different speeds on different computers. For a constant speed you will need to base movement off the timer or fps.

It's been discussed many times, a quick search here and in the darkbasic pro board will turn up plenty of usefull info.

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Posted: 10th Aug 2004 02:28
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The quickest way to implement constant frame rates is:

SYNC RATE 50 (or whatever rate you want)
SYNC ON

This will be fairly consistent across machines.
There are ways to do it more accurately yourself, but my opinion is that you must have a very pedantic application if you need very precise frame rates.

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