How to Measure Frame Rate

It's kinda hard to tell you how to do it, when you don't mention what game your using. In ICR2 it's easy, just press CTRL-R to bring up the framerate counter. In Nascar things aren't so easy. You have to use the Auto Min/Max graphics settings. The Min/Max settings determine at when to start dropping/adding the Auto textures to keep the desired performance. What you do is turn all the graphics on, except for track texture which you set to auto. Then set the Min/Max both to the same framerate. Go out and run a few laps. If the track texture stays on, then you're getting higher rates than what you specified. If the track texture never comes on, you have the settings too high. Just experiment with values until the track texture flickers on and off. The Min/Max setting that achieves this is your framerate. -- Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

OK- I've lurked long enough trying to answer this question, and looked for a FAQ, but to no avail. So I gotta ask, how do you know what your frame rates are running at? I set the Min and Max, but how do I know what they are during play? I feel foolish asking this, since it seems so simple. Thanks for your help. David

Thanks for the reply. I am running ICR2 win 3.1 with the 1.02 patch on a Cyrix P120 with Diamond Stealth 64. I have tried pressing "ctrl" and "R" during practice and a race, but nothing ever shows. Am I doing it at the wrong time? Do I need to have another screen up? Maybe it is just in the WIN95 or rendition version? I have also now tried your other method, and am startled at the lousy frame rates I was getting with the graphics on. I was living in ignorant bliss. I never realized what 25-30 fps even looked like. Guess that's why I was always frustrated in traffic that the cars seemed to dart around so much, maybe this was because of my lousy frame rate? Thanks again for your reply, you have been very helpful in this newsgroup.

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>It's kinda hard to tell you how to do it, when you don't mention what >game your using. In ICR2 it's easy, just press CTRL-R to bring up the >framerate counter. In Nascar things aren't so easy. You have to use >the Auto Min/Max graphics settings. The Min/Max settings determine at >when to start dropping/adding the Auto textures to keep the desired >performance. >What you do is turn all the graphics on, except for track texture which >you set to auto. Then set the Min/Max both to the same framerate. Go >out and run a few laps. If the track texture stays on, then you're >getting higher rates than what you specified. If the track texture >never comes on, you have the settings too high. Just experiment with >values until the track texture flickers on and off. The Min/Max >setting that achieves this is your framerate. >-- >Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences >Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/ >> I've lurked long enough trying to answer this question, and looked >for >> a FAQ, but to no avail. So I gotta ask, how do you know what your >> frame rates are running at? I set the Min and Max, but how do I know >> what they are during play? I feel foolish asking this, since it >seems >> so simple.

That's probably because I should have said ALT-R, sorry. You never know what your missing until you see it. I know what 30fps looks like, and I'm not satisfied with much less (I've been spoiled). On my p120 I run Nascar in regular old VGA because SVGA is just too slow. Anything under 20fps is noticeably choppy to me, and under 15 is just unplayable. At low framerates, the cars move quite a distance from frame to frame, making it difficult to pinpoint their locations. No problem, I'm glad to be of help. -- Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

> > I have tried pressing "ctrl" and "R" during practice and a race, but > > nothing ever shows. Am I doing it at the wrong time? Do I need to > > have another screen up? Maybe it is just in the WIN95 or rendition > > version? > That's probably because I should have said ALT-R, sorry. I think it's Alt-F in non-Rendition ICR2 ... -- Henrikki (Hena) Hakkanen Tel. +358-(9)0-345 5538 ------- The best way to accelerate a Mac is 9.81 m/s2 -------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are mine and does not necessarily reflect those of my employer!