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Post by Shino »

thanks for all the replies :)

nother question: Why is my fps capped at 60 ?
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It's capped at the screen refresh rate. Which is 60Hz for the iBook LCD.
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Post by Shino »

hmmm can't I put refreshrate 100 ?
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Post by Arexack_Heretic »

If your LCD can't take it you can't. :(
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Despite numerous bug reports and detailed explanations to the relevant people at Apple of exactly why it sucks, Core Graphics reports most (all) LCDs as having a refresh rate of 0 fps (and doesn’t allow vertical retrace synching except that built into OpenGL). The standard work-around is to treat 0 as 60; the “lag” of current LCD technology means that faster refresh rates are pretty pointless anyway.

You can see if this is the case in System Preferences – if the Refresh Rate pop-up menu is greyed out and reads n/a, the refresh rate is being reported as 0. (The interface may be different on pre-Tiger systems.)

On systems other than Mac OS X, the cap will be whatever SDL says the refresh rate is.
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