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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:06:20 +0100
From: Per Inge Mathisen
Subject: [SDL] Fullscreen refresh on win32
Windows has a terrible default for fullscreen 3D apps of 60mhz refresh
rate. This can be fixed by the user by going into his driver's
control panel and forcing the refresh rate higher. However, this not a
very user friendly way about it, and in any case SDL contains no code
that could figure out this that condition has afflicted the user.
So the question is, could SDL fix this for the user? It is possible
under Windows to request a higher refresh rate. The danger is of
course that if the user has an old monitor, and you request a too high
refresh rate, the monitor could be damaged. However, I believe there
might be a way around that: Check before switching what refresh rate
the user's desktop runs in, and if our fullscreen dimensions are equal
or less than those of the desktop, use the higher refresh rate of 60
and the desktop rate.
Since most users run their desktops in the same or higher resolution
something sane, this should fix this problem for most users.
Thoughts?
An alternative is to add an SDL_GL_GetAttribute(SDL_GL_REFRESH_RATE)
option so that programs can bitch at their users at their own
convenience.
- Per
| author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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| date | Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:56:10 +0000 |
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| 5 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or | |
| 6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public | |
| 7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either | |
| 8 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. | |
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| 10 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
| 13 Library General Public License for more details. | |
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| 15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public | |
| 16 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free | |
| 17 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | |
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| 19 Sam Lantinga | |
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| 0 | 21 */ |
| 22 | |
| 23 #ifdef SAVE_RCSID | |
| 24 static char rcsid = | |
| 25 "@(#) $Id$"; | |
| 26 #endif | |
| 27 | |
| 28 #ifndef _SDL_thread_c_h | |
| 29 #define _SDL_thread_c_h | |
| 30 | |
| 31 #include "SDL_error_c.h" | |
| 32 #include "SDL_systhread_c.h" | |
| 33 | |
| 34 /* This is the system-independent thread info structure */ | |
| 35 struct SDL_Thread { | |
| 36 Uint32 threadid; | |
| 37 SYS_ThreadHandle handle; | |
| 38 int status; | |
| 39 SDL_error errbuf; | |
| 40 void *data; | |
| 41 }; | |
| 42 | |
| 43 /* This is the function called to run a thread */ | |
| 44 extern void SDL_RunThread(void *data); | |
| 45 | |
| 46 /* Routine to get the thread-specific error variable */ | |
| 47 extern SDL_error *SDL_GetErrBuf(void); | |
| 48 | |
| 49 #endif /* _SDL_thread_c_h */ |