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Capped frame limit for no reason *sigh*

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:28 am
by pacman
Sup,

yesterday I tried to code something and it worked :o
After restarting computer all of a sudden I couldn't reach 125FPS it was capped at 100.
I commented everything I added last time - still same problem.
Downloaded version from days ago - again capped at 100.
Tried run it on ancient laptop - capped at 64.

Could you check how much FPS you get and make some shamanic magic to unlock mah fps's :cry:

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Re: Capped frame limit for no reason *sigh*

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:08 am
by Jasoco
I get 125FPS.

Re: Capped frame limit for no reason *sigh*

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:13 am
by pacman
What can cap my frame rate if
1. I didn't do anything (ye, right :crazy:)
2. Vsync in nvidia is turned off
:C

Re: Capped frame limit for no reason *sigh*

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:03 pm
by Kingdaro
It's unreasonable for a game to need to run at a higher framerate than the monitor refresh rate anyways, outside of debugging purposes.

Re: Capped frame limit for no reason *sigh*

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:06 pm
by pacman
Have you ever played any game in your life? :ultrashocked:
#nohate

Re: Capped frame limit for no reason *sigh*

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:30 pm
by Kingdaro
...Yes, and when your monitor refresh rate is 60 frames, that's just the limit in terms of how much FPS you can get out of your game. Yes, the game runs at 125 FPS, but is only displayed at 60. That's a lot of unnecessary CPU usage, and it's better to just use vsync in most cases (again, outside of debugging).

Re: Capped frame limit for no reason *sigh*

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 1:03 pm
by pacman
limit in terms of how much FPS you can get out of your game
Not game but monitor.
Yes, the game runs at 125 FPS, but is only displayed at 60
Sure.
it's better to just use vsync in most cases
Please, god no...

More FPS = more responsiveness = good.
You don't want to wait a lot for a game to jump, shoot or whatever you want to do.

Re: Capped frame limit for no reason *sigh*

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:06 pm
by Tjakka5
Personally, I prefer more fps over a capped fps. Just seems a bit smoother to me.

And to answer the question, I get 125fps as well.

Re: Capped frame limit for no reason *sigh*

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:57 pm
by Kingdaro
No, but, in most cases, where your monitor refresh rate is 60 Hz, you literally cannot see anything on the screen at any faster than 60 FPS. This is what the refresh rate is, it is your monitor's FPS cap. It may be different for you if your monitor refresh rate is higher, but most of the time, it's pointless having a game running at higher than vsync. The difference in response time is negligible, indistinguishable.

Re: Capped frame limit for no reason *sigh*

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 2:50 am
by Jasoco
pacman wrote:More FPS = more responsiveness = good.
You don't want to wait a lot for a game to jump, shoot or whatever you want to do.
This is irrelevant in Löve because you should be using Delta Time anyway. Your VSync might be turned off and the game might be running faster than the display, but you're going to be getting terribly ugly as hell screen tearing. VSync is a good thing. Not a bad thing. You're not going to get any better "responsiveness" removing the cap and you shouldn't be depending on a super fast framerate anyway since it would cause the game to run differently on different machines which would also be a bad thing.