How do I see my Frames Per Second in F1 2001?
Chris
Measuring F1 2001 frame rates with FRAPS
Chris Rogers asked how to see frame rates in F1 2001 and was pointed to FRAPS, which some said also mysteriously boosted the game's frame rate. Others saw no effect, and posters explained how to make windowed mode stick by matching desktop color depth. FRAPS 1.5 added support for windowed DirectX 8 games.
Automated summary.
You need a program called FRAPS
http://www.fraps.com/
"Chris Rogers" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> How do I see my Frames Per Second in F1 2001?
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> Chris
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:23:35 -0400, "Chris Rogers"
<[email hidden]> wrote:
>How do I see my Frames Per Second in F1 2001?
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>Chris
Download www.fraps.com. Nice bonus: when you leave fraps running while
playing f1 2001, you'll notice a huge fps increase :)
Andre
How do we know this if this is the only way to measure it?
Dave
Andre Warringa wrote:
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> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:23:35 -0400, "Chris Rogers" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >>How do I see my Frames Per Second in F1 2001? >> >>Chris >> > > Download www.fraps.com. Nice bonus: when you leave fraps running while > playing f1 2001, you'll notice a huge fps increase :) > > Andre >Good question. Can you really see a difference Or is it youre observation
that is getting tweaked by the increased fraps which really are not there ?
scrcs
> How do we know this if this is the only way to measure it?
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> Dave
On 19 Oct 2001 07:06:07 -0500, David Geesaman
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>How do we know this if this is the only way to measure it?
I trust my own eyes.. yesterday I started F1 2001 and after driving a
lap I was puzzled why it run so jerky - exit f1 2001, start fraps, run
f1 2001, and it was smooth as silk again.
A rough guess is an increase of 40% fps in full screen mode - without
fraps f1 2001 is hardly playable for me, it's more like a slideshow on
monaco, with fraps on it's perfect.
Andre
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> >Dave > >Andre Warringa wrote: > >> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:23:35 -0400, "Chris Rogers" >> <[email hidden]> wrote: >> >> >>>How do I see my Frames Per Second in F1 2001? >>> >>>Chris >>> >> >> Download www.fraps.com. Nice bonus: when you leave fraps running while >> playing f1 2001, you'll notice a huge fps increase :) >> >> Andre >> >it really is the difference between visible jerky and fluid motion
DOK
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:20:03 +0200, "scrcs" <[email hidden]>
wrote:
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>Good question. Can you really see a difference Or is it youre observation >that is getting tweaked by the increased fraps which really are not there ? > >scrcs > >> How do we know this if this is the only way to measure it? >> >> Dave > >
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Does it really function with every config?
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> On 19 Oct 2001 07:06:07 -0500, David Geesaman > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >How do we know this if this is the only way to measure it? > > I trust my own eyes.. yesterday I started F1 2001 and after driving a > lap I was puzzled why it run so jerky - exit f1 2001, start fraps, run > f1 2001, and it was smooth as silk again. > A rough guess is an increase of 40% fps in full screen mode - without > fraps f1 2001 is hardly playable for me, it's more like a slideshow on > monaco, with fraps on it's perfect. > > Andre > >No, it makes no difference to me or lots of others. Nobody seems to have
worked out why it does work for some people. Weird.
Iain
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> > "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> ha scritto nel > messaggio news:[email hidden]... > > On 19 Oct 2001 07:06:07 -0500, David Geesaman > > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > > >How do we know this if this is the only way to measure it? > > > > I trust my own eyes.. yesterday I started F1 2001 and after driving a > > lap I was puzzled why it run so jerky - exit f1 2001, start fraps, run > > f1 2001, and it was smooth as silk again. > > A rough guess is an increase of 40% fps in full screen mode - without > > fraps f1 2001 is hardly playable for me, it's more like a slideshow on > > monaco, with fraps on it's perfect. > > > > Andre > > > > > Does it really function with every config? > >On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:48:06 +0100, "Iain Mackenzie"
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>No, it makes no difference to me or lots of others. Nobody seems to have
>worked out why it does work for some people. Weird.
Surprised it doesn't work for you.. on the high gear it seems to work
for most people. Same goes for the people on VROC who have f1 2001.
Weird indeed. I guess you allready know this, but fraps increases the
fps only in full-screen mode, in the same way the window-mode is much
faster than full-screen mode without fraps.
Also, it seems that for some people fraps 1.5 doesn't give an
advantage - I even read some posts on High Gear of people who can't
get f1 2001 working with 1.5 - but fraps 1.4 seems to work for
everyone. 1.4 is not on www.fraps.com anymore, but you can easily find
a link to 1.4 on the high gear EA forum.
Andre
>Iain
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:47:11 GMT, [email hidden]
(Andre Warringa) wrote:
Is this windowed or full screen? I ran it with fraps in full screen
mode and my frame rate was crap. Run it in windowed mode and the frame
rate is good - with or without fraps running.
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>I trust my own eyes.. yesterday I started F1 2001 and after driving a >lap I was puzzled why it run so jerky - exit f1 2001, start fraps, run >f1 2001, and it was smooth as silk again. >A rough guess is an increase of 40% fps in full screen mode - without >fraps f1 2001 is hardly playable for me, it's more like a slideshow on >monaco, with fraps on it's perfect. > >Andre
"Dave Ryerson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:47:11 GMT, [email hidden]
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> Is this windowed or full screen? I ran it with fraps in full screen
> mode and my frame rate was crap. Run it in windowed mode and the frame
> rate is good - with or without fraps running.
How did you get it to run in windowed mode? I tried editing the config.ini
file to read 1 instead of 0 for windomode but , even with the file set to
read only, it would change back to 0.
Dav_Erb
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:33:31 GMT, "David Erb" <[email hidden]>
wrote:
>How did you get it to run in windowed mode? I tried editing the config.ini
>file to read 1 instead of 0 for windomode but , even with the file set to
>read only, it would change back to 0.
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>Dav_Erb
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Maybe it's to do with your video card and/or drivers. Mine stays in
windowed mode on a GF2 using Asus 12.90 drivers.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:33:31 GMT, "David Erb" <[email hidden]>
wrote:
You need to set the colourdepth to be the same for both the game and
your windows desktop.
Dave
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> >"Dave Ryerson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:47:11 GMT, [email hidden] >> >> Is this windowed or full screen? I ran it with fraps in full screen >> mode and my frame rate was crap. Run it in windowed mode and the frame >> rate is good - with or without fraps running. > >How did you get it to run in windowed mode? I tried editing the config.ini >file to read 1 instead of 0 for windomode but , even with the file set to >read only, it would change back to 0.>>How did you get it to run in windowed mode? I tried editing the config.ini
>>file to read 1 instead of 0 for windomode but , even with the file set to
>>read only, it would change back to 0.
>You need to set the colourdepth to be the same for both the game and
>your windows desktop.
And I think you must also run the config again.
Arto
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Andre
Neither 1.4 nor 1.5 makes any difference to me, but it really doesn't matter
as I get huge frame rates even @ 1280. It couldn't be any smoother!
Iain
"Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:48:06 +0100, "Iain Mackenzie" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >No, it makes no difference to me or lots of others. Nobody seems to have > >worked out why it does work for some people. Weird. > > Surprised it doesn't work for you.. on the high gear it seems to work > for most people. Same goes for the people on VROC who have f1 2001. > Weird indeed. I guess you allready know this, but fraps increases the > fps only in full-screen mode, in the same way the window-mode is much > faster than full-screen mode without fraps. > Also, it seems that for some people fraps 1.5 doesn't give an > advantage - I even read some posts on High Gear of people who can't > get f1 2001 working with 1.5 - but fraps 1.4 seems to work for > everyone. 1.4 is not on www.fraps.com anymore, but you can easily find > a link to 1.4 on the high gear EA forum. > > Andre > > >Iain >
"Arto Wikla" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> >>How did you get it to run in windowed mode? I tried editing theconfig.ini
> >>file to read 1 instead of 0 for windomode but , even with the file setto
Thanks to you and David Haigh I finally got this to stick. Trying it in
800x600x32 now , sure looks odd sitting in the middle of my desktop. Now to
see what its all about.
Dav_Erb
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> >>read only, it would change back to 0. > > >You need to set the colourdepth to be the same for both the game and > >your windows desktop. > > And I think you must also run the config again. > > Arto > -- > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/music.htmlFraps does not work with Windowed games, according to the FAQ.
-Larry
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> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:47:11 GMT, [email hidden] > (Andre Warringa) wrote: > > > >I trust my own eyes.. yesterday I started F1 2001 and after driving a > >lap I was puzzled why it run so jerky - exit f1 2001, start fraps, run > >f1 2001, and it was smooth as silk again. > >A rough guess is an increase of 40% fps in full screen mode - without > >fraps f1 2001 is hardly playable for me, it's more like a slideshow on > >monaco, with fraps on it's perfect. > > > >Andre > > Is this windowed or full screen? I ran it with fraps in full screen > mode and my frame rate was crap. Run it in windowed mode and the frame > rate is good - with or without fraps running.The new version (1.5) apparantly does
From their website:
Another release! New for version 1.5:
Windows XP support.
DirectX 8 support (Both windowed and full screen applications).
Min/Max framerates now recorded in manual benchmarking logs.
Fraps now packaged in an installer (thanks to Nullsoft NSIS!)
Ian P
Larry <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Fraps does not work with Windowed games, according to the FAQ.
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> -Larry
LOL! That's the one I looked at :) I guess they haven't updated the FAQ
yet.
-Larry
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