The frequency which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images. It is most often expressed in frames per second (FPS).
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How to calculate fps in GLFW?
Just letting you guys know before anything I'm a beginner at programming. I am just wondering how I should go about calculating the fps using GLFW?
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Do games developed in Flash have capped frame rate?
I used to be sure that all Flash games are capped to 30 FPS, Edmund McMillen's (Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac) Flash engine games run at that frame rate (personally I've only confirmed the ...
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Using “Flag” as foliage in Unity
In many 3D games, players and NPCs will have a "flag" (3d text object) over the head of the character that displays various types of useful information.
Unity allows you to create 3d text objects and ...
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XNA - How to not cap update frequency at monitor refresh rate with variable timestep, vsync enabled?
I want my XNA game to update as frequently as possible (to keep factors such as audio playback and input latency to an absolute minimum) and have vertical sync enabled at the same time. I set graphics....
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SFML game only runs smooth at high framerate (Windows 10)
I am trying to make my game smooth on low and high fps. Right now, it only runs smooth when I don't limit the framerate. If I run it at 60, then my sprite is noticeably "sluggish". I believe this ...
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How to update game handle touch input faster
I'm making a LibGDX game where the player needs to tap to jump. But in this game, the player has to tap extra fast because the player needs to jump extra fast.
The problem is, the program can't ...
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Smoothness & performance issues of new game
I've written the basics of a new game which just includes a game loop that can update and render basic game objects so far.
I want to ensure that what I've written so far is as good as it can be and ...
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Game gets 140+ FPS on Macbook Air but gets < 30 FPS on(much more powerful) Windows laptop
I'm using TexturePaint in java to paint the textures of polygons, and if I remove that functionality, the game runs pretty well on Windows, so it's definitely an issue with texturing the game.
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How do games like Street Fighter compensate for bad frame rates?
I know fighting games like Street Fighter like to run and are capped to a standard 60 fps. All their combos, animations, chains, etc... are based on frames. So, how do they compensate for slowdowns ...
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Frame rate slowing down after publishing XNA game in VB.NET
I will get to the main question later but I just want to give the backstory here first.
I program a game in XNA using VB.NET. As I'm testing the game in debug it works at a certain speed (...
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Gfx.WaitForPresent performance issue
I am making a 2D mobile game and it runs really well (60 fps) on my phone. However, in some cases the performance goes down drastically to the point where it runs at 20 fps or even less. It happens at ...
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Setting up game loop wait time and FPS
I have been able to set up the game loop method/function, but many objects do their stuff in separate threads. The reason for that is not ensure, that the program is not going to stop working, despite ...
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How can I simulate thousands of things at high frame-rates?
I'm working on a simulation game like SimTower where I'd like to keep track of thousands of items at once.
Other games like this, appear to have hundreds or thousands of rooms with elevators with ...
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Profiling frame rate in shader
I used adreno profiler to profile a mediaplayer shader application:
source : https://github.com/crossle/MediaPlayerSurface/blob/master/src/me/crossle/demo/surfacetexture/VideoSurfaceView.java
The ...
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Accelerated movement in a specific time to a specific point
I am trying to move my sprite in a specific time to a specific position while using frame-independent or time-dependent movement. My sprite is also accelerated every frame to simulate gravity. I know ...
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Unity stats framerate vs Time.deltaTime
Googling around, a way for calculating framerate and displaying it as text ingame is using 1/Time.deltaTime. However, comparing this against unity stats FPS shows 2 different FPS. Which of it is ...
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How to make score counter independent of framerate
I have a score counter, but I've noticed that the lower the framerate is, the slower it counts. How can I make it so it ignores the framerate?
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;
using ...
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Frame Rate Independence for Non-Linear Increases
So while working on my game, I decided that I would have a speed variable increase in the fashion
speed += 1/speed;
with the goal being that in the beginning it increases fast and then it increases ...
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Movement appears to be frame rate dependent, despite use of Time.deltaTime
I have the following code to calculate the translation required to move a game object in Unity, which is called in LateUpdate. From what I understand, my use of Time.deltaTime should make the final ...
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Multi-threading for rhythm game?
I'm trying to recreate a rhythm game. However trying to get the key-presses with SDL2 I ran into the problem, that you can only get an event every time a frame has been successfully rendered (I can't ...
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Pygame time.get_fps() value
I was looking at the pygame.time.Clock.get_fps() method and after puting it inside of the while loop printing and checking it some times, i see that i starts to give its value after five frames (and ...
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How can I lower the cpu usage in kiwijs?
I tried setting the game.frameRate to 30 and the animations are running slower but the cpu has the same load.
(That worked before with CreateJS but that library is not focused to games and does not ...
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Unity 5 Google Cardboard VR SDK Frame Rate
I am running the Google Cardboard's official demo which doesn't really have much things on the scene (https://developers.google.com/cardboard/unity/download) on my Personal Unity 5 on my Nexus 5.
The ...
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How to adjust my games speed to fps [duplicate]
Hi so i am making a small sort of physics engine, but if your fps is really slow the physics will update slower and objects will move slower. How do i make the speed of objects greater if the fps is ...
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FPS drop when detecting collision (sfml, c++)
So, I have this small class with a collision detection function in it, it's called every frame.
When I run the game I get around 8000 FPS, but when the collision function gets called it drops to 2000....
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Can you write the current frame number to a text file?
I am running an experiment in Unity 5 to see the effect increasing the particles of a particle effect has on FPS over time. (this is background work for a much larger piece of work). Currently I write ...
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Frame Rate in Cave Story
When reading on frame rate, i usually encounter the following suggestions:
render as fast as possible
render to 60 fps
I want to make a 2d game that runs in slow computers, and i've been surprised ...
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Will unlocking the framerate in XNA/MonoGame tell me how efficient my code is?
I have been unlocking the framerate in MonoGame via:
this.graphics.SynchronizeWithVerticalRetrace = false;
base.IsFixedTimeStep = false;
And using it as a basis for how efficient I am updating and ...
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GameMaker: Studio - Slow down calculations
I currently have an orbital simulator, with a brilliant answer in another Game Development question here, and would like to know how to slow down the calculations of Game Maker, to be able to do more ...
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Is Update called based on screens refresh rate? MonoGame
My game is running 60fps (Because I'm using a 60hz monitor) but if I would use a 85hz monitor it would be running 85fps. My question is if update is called based on the screens refresh rate or if its ...
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Could frame interpolation like used by SmoothVideo Project be an option to increase the framerate of games without as big a performance hit?
The SmoothVideo Project uses frame interpolation to increase the fps of video from 24 to 60. The results are pretty impressive. I was wondering if this could be applied to, and whether it would look ...
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How can I achieve a constant drop rate with a variable frame rate?
In my game, I have particles that should spawn at random intervals but with an average rate of x per second.
However, the frame-rate varies from around 60 fps all the way to around 3000 fps. I would ...
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Locking the frame rate in pygame?
I am having trouble setting up the frame rate in my first game. I know that I can set it up with
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
clock.tick(60)
but this is not producing very desirable results. If I ...
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What is a reasonable way to avoid GC issues in Unity?
I've been reading about how garbage collection is a big problem when programming games using C#, Java, and the like - if you have a large amount of objects, the GC will run sporadically and scan ...
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SDL2 - Windowed mode, VSYNC active, refresh rate 56hz instead of 60hz
As the topic title says. System is Windows 7 64bit. C++.
I am not sure why this happens. The refresh rate in the window is 56 hz (calculated in the application from SDL_GetTicks) instead of the ...
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Can't find out why aren't those collisions framerate independent
I'm making a 2D Platform game and I'm having trouble with my collision detection. It doesn't seems to be framerate independent even though I used deltatime there.
The problem is that at 60fps, a ...
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Framerate is affecting speed of object
I'm experimenting with building a game engine from scratch in Java, and I have a couple questions. My main game loop looks like this:
int FPS = 60;
while(isRunning){
/* ...
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SFML game loop and FPS problems
I've been building an SFML engine and I've been very confused on the FPS, frame independent movement and game loop.
My particular problem is that I have a variable set to 60 for the frame limit but ...
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How do I implement a fixed delta time step with a SDL_Delay(15ms) precision
So I am using SDL2.0 for making a Game Engine.
Where I am having a problem is using SDL_Delay().
SDL_Delay's minimum delay time is 15ms, I've tried everything, and my FPS is Stuck at 64 because of ...
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OpenGL streaming from multiple windows
I am using GLUT library for my research/game.
In my game I have 25 windows created using glutCreateWindow(title), and each of them have their own display callback registered using glutDisplayFunc(...
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Should I worry about variable time step for simple mobile 2d game
After going through some articles on framerate independent game design, i found that its not an easy task to implement in variable time steps(it is difficult compared to fixed frame rate, and ...
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How to resize animation in libgdx?
I want to draw an animation, the size of each frame is 500x500px but when I try to resize, the animation seems to rotate...
Here the code to load frames and create animation:
Texture fireSheet = ...
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What is the difference between framerate independent vs framerate dependent? [duplicate]
What is the difference between framerate independent vs framerate dependent?
Can you please give an example.
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How to implement accurate frame-rate-independent physics?
So, I have been working on a project for a while now and recently stumbled across a problem:
The common approach to frame-rate independent physics is to either use a fixed update interval (ie. Unity) ...
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Java game runs slower and slower as game runs longer [closed]
I know that this question may be considered off topic, but this is a significant problem.
Problem:
I have in a java game that I am working on. The FPS counter starts at 250 FPS and in about 2-4 ...
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Locked frame rate
I'm a little bit confused about the way game engines handle frame rate. Correct me if I'm wrong:
By my assumptions, usually we have a frame rate which graphical API runs by it and a frame rate called ...
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Issue with fps limiting in XNA
The game I am making runs at 60 fps, but occasionally it will drop lower than that. I want to limit the frame-rate to 30 fps so that those drops will be less noticeable.
I don't understand everything ...
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Capping framerate independently of logic updates in single-threaded Android Gameloop
My game is currently using the below game loop (this is an OpenGL ES 2.0 game, therefore the loop-work takes place on the rendering thread in the provided onDrawFrame method).
Currently my loop ...
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How can I make sure my game runs on older GPUs than mine?
My game must stay at 75fps to be playable (I'm developing for the Oculus Rift) and I'm optimizing with that hardware in mind.
My mid-range Nvidia GTX 650 Ti struggles a little with some Rift demos, ...
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Framerate dependent movement
I'm moving my character controller using Euler integration like this:
Vector3 originalPos = transform.position;
Vector3 acceleration = Physics.gravity;
velocity += acceleration * Time.deltaTime;
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