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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 |
parents | be9c9c8f6d53 |
children | b2b476a4a73c |
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/* Test program to check the resolution of the SDL timer on the current platform */ #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include "SDL.h" #define DEFAULT_RESOLUTION 1 static int ticks = 0; /* Call this instead of exit(), so we can clean up SDL: atexit() is evil. */ static void quit(int rc) { SDL_Quit(); exit(rc); } static Uint32 ticktock(Uint32 interval) { ++ticks; return(interval); } static Uint32 callback(Uint32 interval, void *param) { printf("Timer %d : param = %d\n", interval, (int) param); return interval; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int desired; SDL_TimerID t1, t2, t3; if ( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_TIMER) < 0 ) { fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't load SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); return(1); } /* Start the timer */ desired = 0; if ( argv[1] ) { desired = atoi(argv[1]); } if ( desired == 0 ) { desired = DEFAULT_RESOLUTION; } SDL_SetTimer(desired, ticktock); /* Wait 10 seconds */ printf("Waiting 10 seconds\n"); SDL_Delay(10*1000); /* Stop the timer */ SDL_SetTimer(0, NULL); /* Print the results */ if ( ticks ) { fprintf(stderr, "Timer resolution: desired = %d ms, actual = %f ms\n", desired, (double)(10*1000)/ticks); } /* Test multiple timers */ printf("Testing multiple timers...\n"); t1 = SDL_AddTimer(100, callback, (void*)1); if(!t1) fprintf(stderr,"Could not create timer 1: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); t2 = SDL_AddTimer(50, callback, (void*)2); if(!t2) fprintf(stderr,"Could not create timer 2: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); t3 = SDL_AddTimer(233, callback, (void*)3); if(!t3) fprintf(stderr,"Could not create timer 3: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); /* Wait 10 seconds */ printf("Waiting 10 seconds\n"); SDL_Delay(10*1000); printf("Removing timer 1 and waiting 5 more seconds\n"); SDL_RemoveTimer(t1); SDL_Delay(5*1000); SDL_RemoveTimer(t2); SDL_RemoveTimer(t3); SDL_Quit(); return(0); }