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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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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SDL_Flip</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="SDL Library Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Video" HREF="video.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="SDL_UpdateRects" HREF="sdlupdaterects.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SDL_SetColors" HREF="sdlsetcolors.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ee" VLINK="#551a8b" ALINK="#ff0000" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >SDL Library Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlupdaterects.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlsetcolors.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SDLFLIP" ></A >SDL_Flip</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1426" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >SDL_Flip -- Swaps screen buffers</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1429" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN1430" ></A ><P ></P ><PRE CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSISINFO" >#include "SDL.h"</PRE ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int <B CLASS="FSFUNC" >SDL_Flip</B ></CODE >(SDL_Surface *screen);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1436" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >On hardware that supports double-buffering, this function sets up a flip and returns. The hardware will wait for vertical retrace, and then swap video buffers before the next video surface blit or lock will return. On hardware that doesn't support double-buffering, this is equivalent to calling <A HREF="sdlupdaterect.html" >SDL_UpdateRect</A ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >(screen, 0, 0, 0, 0)</I ></TT ></P ><P >The <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >SDL_DOUBLEBUF</TT > flag must have been passed to <A HREF="sdlsetvideomode.html" >SDL_SetVideoMode</A >, when setting the video mode for this function to perform hardware flipping.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1444" ></A ><H2 >Return Value</H2 ><P >This function returns <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >0</SPAN > if successful, or <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >-1</SPAN > if there was an error.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1449" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><P ><A HREF="sdlsetvideomode.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_SetVideoMode</TT ></A >, <A HREF="sdlupdaterect.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_UpdateRect</TT ></A >, <A HREF="sdlsurface.html" ><SPAN CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >SDL_Surface</SPAN ></A ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdlupdaterects.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdlsetcolors.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SDL_UpdateRects</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="video.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >SDL_SetColors</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >