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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:53 pm
by hteamspy
I get constant 80fps
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:55 pm
by J. Baker
Ok, here's the best I could do for a plane. Never did a plane before either. On the turret, I would make it stick out a little further. You can see the back of it when you level it horizontal.

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:26 pm
by DriakTravo
Ahh I see.... Thank you very much! I can't tell you how much I appriciate what you have done.
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:40 am
by LarsG
oooh.. that kind of resembles one of the planes in one of the animations by Eric Schwartz.. :p
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:03 am
by Dare2
My FPS has jumped to 59/60!
Runs smoothly with movement keys in use and firing bursts of shots at the same time.
Nice. And Nice graphics!
Barrel might need to be hinged a little further back (drawing shifted right a few pixels?) because at lowest depression the back can be seen.
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:05 am
by DriakTravo
Ok I have updated the link once again.
http://www.1matthew.com/FPSTest.zip
What I want to know is your framerate before and after you press "S" on your keyboard. Mine is a steady 75 no matter what I do to the game.
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:34 am
by Dare2
Frame rate mostly 59/60, dropping infrequently to 58/59
Pressing S had no obvious effect on the frame rate. But my tank! 8O
Saw the effects with S.
BTW, on firing there is a reddish flash effect from the muzzle, but no visible smoke. Is this what you intended?
Also barrel's bum doesn't stick out anymore. Things are shaping up!
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 7:07 am
by J. Baker
Very nice, I got a constant 85 no matter what.

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:38 am
by DriakTravo
The red is supposed to be fire.... I am a good enough programmer to morph it to smoke... (I wish I could tho.)
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:53 pm
by blueznl
74..75 constant, no matter what i did
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:31 pm
by Fred
When running in fullscreen, the animation is synchronized to the actual refresh rate. So you have 75fps if you have a 75hz screen etc..
59
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:14 pm
by StarHawk
59 FPS no matter what.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:02 pm
by blueznl
fred, i beg to disagree

my screen refresh rate is set to 100, my cpu is idling away, and yet framerates appears to hit a ceiling due to some reason... interestingly, benchmarks using 3dmarkxxx show that it is not a cpu or graphic card issue, it appears drivers / settings can make quite some difference... (i noticed the nvidia drivers can even report a different refresh rate back to the software opposed to the actual screen refresh rate)
unfortunately, i don' have a machine with a radeon at hand so i could swap cards to check... perhaps later...
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:24 pm
by chris_b
blueznl wrote:fred, i beg to disagree

my screen refresh rate is set to 100
Change your desktop resolution to 800x600 first. Then specify 100 Hertz in Display Properties->Settings->Advanced->Monitor. Then run the code and you will probably see a different result.
This is because DirectX has a default refresh rate which is used for any screen modes that are different from the current desktop resolution.
If you run dxdiag.exe there is an option on the "More Help" tab to override this default refresh rate. But it's probably best to leave this alone unless you are certain that your monitor can handle this refresh rate for all resolutions.
(Also your nvidia card's properties (in Display Properties->Settings->Advanced) might have a "Refresh Rate Overrides" page where you can specify a different refresh rate for each screen mode)
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:46 pm
by DriakTravo
Ok I have a few questions, can anyone think of a good name for the game? Also, I am taking a vote, how many people would prefer the game in a windowed mode?