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Tiny Turtle · 01-23-2003, 01:41 AM

*sigh*

Highest fps mentioned on the forum is ~1250 fps, but that was running few fish in a small window on a PC with a GF Ti4600.

The point is that the fps count is utterly pointless. BC's monitor won't display a higher amount of frames than his sweep frequency in Hz (i.e. 400FPS at 1024x768@100Hz would make the computer throw away 300 frames every second). I don't think you could spot the difference between 70 and 100 fps on the Aquarium either. In Quake/Unreal/whatever the fps varies heavily which makes the need for a higher fps count to work as a buffer a good idea. Look at the fps count for the aquarium – it differs on a decimal level...

Of course, if you need to tell everybody how cool you are for spending big bucks on your computer and at the same time tell everybody you don't understand how your monitor works – then that post is an excellent effort.

I agree on the "wonderful little program" part though.

/Tiny Know-how

01-23-2003, 01:41 AM	#3
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	sigh Highest fps mentioned on the forum is ~1250 fps, but that was running few fish in a small window on a PC with a GF Ti4600. The point is that the fps count is utterly pointless. BC's monitor won't display a higher amount of frames than his sweep frequency in Hz (i.e. 400FPS at 1024x768@100Hz would make the computer throw away 300 frames every second). I don't think you could spot the difference between 70 and 100 fps on the Aquarium either. In Quake/Unreal/whatever the fps varies heavily which makes the need for a higher fps count to work as a buffer a good idea. Look at the fps count for the aquarium – it differs on a decimal level... Of course, if you need to tell everybody how cool you are for spending big bucks on your computer and at the same time tell everybody you don't understand how your monitor works – then that post is an excellent effort. I agree on the "wonderful little program" part though. /Tiny Know-how Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history. Last edited by Tiny Turtle; 01-23-2003 at 01:49 AM.