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Anteworld - Outerra Game => Tech demo, support, updates => Topic started by: Tango91 on March 30, 2012, 05:38:46 pm

Title: FPS display?
Post by: Tango91 on March 30, 2012, 05:38:46 pm

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I'd like to know my FPS while in-game. Is there a way of displaying this?
I've searched but found nothing relevant.

Thanks,

TJ

Title: Re: FPS display?
Post by: angrypig on March 30, 2012, 06:00:42 pm

CTRL + F12

Title: Re: FPS display?
Post by: Tango91 on March 30, 2012, 06:20:54 pm

Thanks!  :)

Title: Re: FPS display?
Post by: Jagerbomber on March 31, 2012, 04:49:05 pm

This has never worked for me.  I don't know why.  :-\

Nevermind.  It's white and in the top left corner.  :P

Question, is (ufo) movement speed based on framerate?  It certainly seems to be.  It's not like stuttering and skipping ahead like it would if it wasn't.  Having movement speed be effected by framerate can mean serious issues in, say, race time trials and especially multiplayer.

Title: Re: FPS display?
Post by: Tango91 on March 31, 2012, 07:37:46 pm

I thought PgUp and PgDn doubled and halved your speed respectively?

It took me a couple of tries to see it too...  ::)

Title: Re: FPS display?
Post by: Jagerbomber on March 31, 2012, 07:52:29 pm

Yes, but that's not my point.

Title: Re: FPS display?
Post by: zuluknob on April 01, 2012, 09:30:11 am

yeh, i was gonna start a thread about this. it does it with the truck too :(

Title: Re: FPS display?
Post by: cameni on April 01, 2012, 09:42:20 am

Quote from: Jagerbomber on March 31, 2012, 04:49:05 pm

Question, is (ufo) movement speed based on framerate?  It certainly seems to be.  It's not like stuttering and skipping ahead like it would if it wasn't.

Why would it be stuttering and skipping? There's a slightly filtered delta-time taken into account.

Title: Re: FPS display?
Post by: Jagerbomber on April 01, 2012, 11:55:08 am

I don't know... That's just my experience with online multiplayer games on my old terrible computer where your framerate does not effect your movement speed.  Since I had such a low framerate, I would keep skipping my character forward instead of it looking like my game was slowing to a crawl (like some (most?) single player games).

Anyways, there's a driving/racing game called Fuel, that obviously wasn't really fully completed, but was still awesome.  It made the mistake of having framerate effect your actual movement speed.  So in even the fastest vehicle I could only reach a certain speed until my old computer couldn't keep up and you could actually see the speedometer stop well below the car's actual top speed.  (I have both the PC and PS3 version - didn't have framerate issues on the PS3 version, so I was able to reach the cars' real top speed.)  Anyways, this made it impossible to keep up with with the other drivers in multiplayer on PC, even in the fastest car, because I couldn't go as fast as them.