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thinkdigital
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I was looking at one of the DBC examples the other day, and I saw that they had put something like this in their code:



I've always assumed that the sync rate command was if you didn't have manual sync on. So why do they put both in the code?

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Ilya
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Sync rate is the max frame rate.

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Chris K
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It stops your game going insanely fast on amazing computers.

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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 00:55
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this way your code can never go over 40 fps no matter how simple it is, otherwise your orbiting cube would run at a reasonable 50 fps on a cheap laptop and an insane 1600fps on a decent desktop machine, needless to say 1600 fps is gonna be unplayably fast
the first command sets the max speed
the second makes sure that you only see changes when sync is called (so you get to see clear text onscreen for example)
try removeing sync and sync on from your code, the difference is noticable in many programs.

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thinkdigital
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Oh, that's useful. My computer isn't amazing, so I don't have that problem. Thanks.

(lol, just noticed I posted this in the wrong board)

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