Macs and fps

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 2:01 am

To any Mac Pilots out there-
I have an ATI Radeon 8500 64 ddr vid card. Mac OS 10.2.4 and 9.2.2
Is there a Mac program out there to determine what my FPS and or PPS is while in game? D3 doesn't have this option in the mac ver.

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CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 5:04 am

Frametime doens't work in mac version?
As for PPS, neither does the PC version.

Pandora · Post by **Pandora** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 5:33 am

it does work

type:

FRAMETIME

when in game and look to the upper left corner. you may need to disable the ping/loss indicator to read the numbers clearly...

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 1:04 pm

PPS is available from F6 - and "Netgame Info".

PPS is shown as X/Y where X is your current packet rate from the server and Y is the server setting. Remember, in Client-Server, the server will drop your packet rate if you get lossy.

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 2:14 am

Pandora,
how do you do this disable of ping data?
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Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 8:58 am

To disable the ping/loss readout hit F6 and it's one of the many choices there.

Pandora · Post by **Pandora** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 4:51 pm

what Will said...

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 6:05 pm

Found out my pps in a SOD
F6 said 10/7
your Framrate command did zilch except for me doing different things that I have my keyboard programed to do.
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Pandora · Post by **Pandora** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 8:46 am

hmmm, what could've went wrong?

Did you use "FRAMETIME" or "FRAMERATE"? You need to use the former... ah, and don't use caps.
also, don't press F8 before typing it, but do it during regular gameplay...

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 11:38 am

Even if I type that in, I have at least 2-3 actions that occur when I type your comand in regular game play even with no F8 or caps used.
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Plebeian · Post by **Plebeian** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:34 pm

Well right, what will happen is that on each keystroke, the corresponding actions will be executed. Might be able to get it working in observer mode and switch out if it bothers you, though I haven't tried this myself.

The special thing about the commands is that the specific sequence of keystrokes will perform some specific command (in addition to the requisite actions for each key).

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 10:54 pm

Yes, and it doesn't matter if controls are triggered during the typing of FRAMETIME ("FRAMELENGTH" also works!) - it still activates the framerate display...

... but you probably aren't seeing it as it displays UNDERNEATH the Ping and Loss indicators. Switch those off using F6 to get a clear view of the FPS counter.

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:28 pm

Typed in your command of framtime 2nite in a SOD while I was in limbo. The highest it said was 62.5 in the sod. Whether that's good in game flying Mac or not; SOD or no SOD; I have no clue.
but that is the answer it gave me. The Lowest I saw was somewhere in the 40's I think.
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Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 6:10 pm

I'm sorry people, but I can't seem to read you latest input messages. My browser won't let me see any more posts.
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Pandora · Post by **Pandora** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 12:14 pm

the Framecap of 62.5 cannot be disabled on the Mac. In previous versions it was still possible, but somewhere along version 1.4 they prevented it.