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Movement appears to be frame rate dependent, despite use of Time.deltaTime
Frame based simulations will experience errors when updates fail to compensate for non-linear rates of change.
For example consider an object starting with position and velocity values of zero ...
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Framerate is affecting speed of object
You're moving the circle by one pixel per frame. It should not come as a big surprise that, if your rendering loop runs at 30 FPS, your circle will move 30 at pixels per second.
You basically have ...
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Locking the frame rate in pygame?
If you read the pygame.time.Clock.tick() and pygame.time.Clock.get_fps() documents, you'll find that:
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How to make a custom event system framerate friendly?
This looks like you could solve it with a priority queue or min-heap. The code to process the queue would look something like this:
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Could frame interpolation like used by SmoothVideo Project be an option to increase the framerate of games without as big a performance hit?
Yes it's possible, but it's not without its complications.
While frame interpolation can work real-time on videos, that isn't necessarily the case with video games. Even though this is processing ...
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Simple framerate counter?
To measure framerate you need two counts:
How many frames (not draw calls) have passed, and,
How much time has passed.
Your framerate is therefore calculated as:
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Framerate is affecting speed of object
Your code is currently running each time a frame renders. If the frame rate is higher or lower than your specified frame rate, your results would change as the updates don't have the same timing.
To ...
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Dynamic frame rate in Unity
I think render to texture is still your best bet. If you took a "screenshot" of what the camera sees and just display that texture the rendering cost should be cheap even at 30fps.
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Handling variable frame rate in SDL2
The most consistent way to do this is to use a fixed time step for your game logic. This avoids game logic oddities due to rounding errors when frame rate changes (collisions or events that don't ...
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How do I implement a fixed delta time step with a SDL_Delay(15ms) precision
You can't reliably control the FPS with functions like SDL_Delay, they call the operating sleep function, which tells the operating system "Please don't give me any CPU time for at least N miliseconds"...
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Could frame interpolation like used by SmoothVideo Project be an option to increase the framerate of games without as big a performance hit?
A system along these lines has been used in The Force Unleashed. I'm not aware of other titles that have used it though.
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Movement appears to be frame rate dependent, despite use of Time.deltaTime
It depends on where you're calling your step from. If you're calling it from Update, your movement will indeed be framerate independent if you scale with Time.deltaTime, but if you're calling it from ...
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How to get time since frame start in Unity for loading purposes
I'll usually use System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch for this.
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How to implement accurate frame-rate-independent physics?
You can fix this problem by averaging the initial and final velocity:
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How can I make sure my game runs on older GPUs than mine?
There is literally no good option other than testing on a range of target hardware.
Simply testing on slower hardware isn't enough. Older cards are often on different driver series, meaning that they ...
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Should I cap the frame rate in SDL?
Should you cap the framerate: Yes
Is a high CPU usage unwanted: Yes
Or even dangerous!: Could be but if so not your problem
You want to cap the framerate because you are extremely unlikely to ...
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Framerate is affecting speed of object
That's because you limit your frame rate, but you only do one update per frame. So let's assume the game runs at the target 60 fps, you get 60 logic updates per second. If the frame rate drops to 15 ...
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Will unlocking the framerate in XNA/MonoGame tell me how efficient my code is?
I don't see why you couldn't use it! Keep in mind that you may have to code differently to account for the differences between fixed/variable timestep, so if you're planning on making it fixed when ...
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Unity stats framerate vs Time.deltaTime
1 / Time.deltaTime is the actual FPS that the whole Unity window (or the game after building and running) is running at.
The FPS that the Stats window shows is ...
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What is a Frame and Frame Per Second?
Games inherited this term from animation, film, and video.
There, a "frame" is one still image in the sequence. By playing lots of frames in rapid succession, we create the illusion of ...
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Timing of coroutines in Unity is never precise
This is most likely down to the frame rate, which makes me wonder how can I make sure that a coroutine takes the precise amount of time it should take despite the fluctuating frame rate?
I don't ...
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How to calculate FPS and what factors affect FPS?
In general to calculate the FPS, you need the following:
cn: counter of how many frames you've rendered
time_start: the time since you've started counting
time_now: the current time
To calculate the ...
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Java game runs slower and slower as game runs longer
You probably have object leaks.
Objects that are still referenced somewhere in an array or list, creating more and more objects for the garbage collector to process as the game advances.
Or more and ...
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Incrase framerate in XNA
I found I had to do the following to set the FPS limit free. In your Game class, do the following:
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Can you write the current frame number to a text file?
You can retrieve the number of frames that have passed with Time.frameCount();, if that's what you're looking for.
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-...
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What's causing this stutter when framerate fluctuates?
You're averaging the total travel of the mouse on a frame.
The travel of the mouse is proportional to the speed the player is moving the mouse and the duration over which you measure the movement.
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