Setting the game frequency

[GfK]

Trouble with aiming for the lowest spec PC you can think of, is that there's always plenty of people out there who will have worse.

i.e. "This gaming laptop* is pretty new, I only bought it six years ago from PC World".

* which was *never* a gaming laptop, and a bit shit on the day you bought it.

[hosch]

I'm a bit late to the party, but that's the way I've done it for several years without running into problems:

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Local fps% = CreateTimer(60)

Repeat

(your game code)

WaitTimer(fps)
Flip
Forever


[grindalf]

Im not trying to hijack the thread but.....
I can CreateTimer and WaitTimer but is there anyway to get the current state of the Timer, like a GetTimer or something. There seems to be no commands for it in the helpfile and I find it very strange that it doesn't exist.

[Steve Elliott]

GetFrameTime()

[grindalf]

GetFrameTime()

That doesn't exist as a command

[Steve Elliott]

https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/Reference/Core/GetFrameTime.htm

[Dan]

like a GetTimer or something. There seems to be no commands for it in the helpfile and I find it very strange that it doesn't exist.

Well, (As planed by the developer) Create/WaitTimer commands should make it easy to achieve a constant framerate.
I guess, Blitzbasic is using it internally, probably flip command is starting the timer, and waittimer() waits until the calculation has reached the target.

It is, because of the WaitTimer (which causes a delay in program execution), that GetTimer becomes useless in this case.

[grindalf]

https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/Reference/Core/GetFrameTime.htm

You do realize you are posting on a topic about Blitz3D right

[Steve Elliott]

lol a lot here use AGK and the subject is universal.   

[RemiD]

https://www.syntaxbomb.com/index.php/topic,3092.0.html (see updated code in post 2)