Raising the fps up to 60?

[hctlan]

Was just curious if you could implement an fps option. I find playing games at 30 fps is really uncomfortable, for me at least. Yay or nay?

[Aerow]

I really like this suggestion. Playing it in 30 fps is a lil odd after you play other games at 60.

I SUPPORT! Hope Kevin reads this.

[Little Teemo]

how does the FPS work in this game...i dont get it XD

[hctlan]

What do you mean how does it work? It's just the frames per second that the game runs at, and currently it is capped at 30.

[Little Teemo]

oh i didnt know it was capped XD my bad, i'm derping and never check my FPS lol

[501105]

60 would probably make the game a bit more smoother, so all for it.

[Chocolate Tree]

I couldn't agree more.... Since the last update I am also running it at 30, which makes the game all clumsy; these 30 fps are even reduced in my camp for some odd reason to 20-22-25, and NO, my graphic supports the bloody bloom indeed

So, dear Kev..... give our beloved game a bit of rhythm, would you??

cheers

[Palpetinus]

I think 40 or 50 FPS would be enough, you barely realise more.

[hctlan]

I can tell the difference between 50 fps and 60 fps quite easily. That could be just me.

[Chocolate Tree]

Well the key point here is we all agree that it needs an injection of fps, being 40-50-60, whatever; hopefully there is someone deep in the woods that eventually steps on this post....

[Aerow]

Adjustable FPS is the borderline conclusion I guess

30, 30-60, 60 Capped.

[Kevin]

This is actually something that's been bugging me, too. All of our other games run at 60. DS was capped at 30 because it's not an action game, and our minspec is pretty low. With some recent optimizations that we've done, however, I've been able to get our frame timings under control.

On the next update, the FPS cap has been raised on the steam version to 60, and indeed looks a lot smoother. If your computer can't handle that, it should degrade gracefully (without slow-moing).

The Chrome version will still be 30, though, because of the relatively lower minspec, and the difficulty I've been having doing reliable timing. I might reevaluate this later, but I'm not in a huge rush. Browser game players don't really expect high frame rates

[hctlan]

Oh how I am glad to hear this news! Music to my ears. Great work

[hctlan]

Also, another issue I've noticed as of late (I'm not sure if I should open a new thread but ill keep it in this one for now) is when I open up fraps to record, the yellow numbers that usually come up over the game, show up for a split second, then vanish.

This only started happening after the latest patch, before that it worked as normal. I should also point out that fraps is still open when the numbers are not visible. I am just unable to record or check the frame rate.

Is this an issue with fraps? Or the latest patch?

Edited November 29, 2012 by hctlan

[Kevin]

I don't really know much about fraps, or how it works. Our game is using a library called Angle to translate its native OpenGL rendering calls to DirectX on Windows (to make it more compatible with a wider range of drivers). Maybe that's confusing it?

I've had luck starting fraps first, and then starting Don't Starve. It's what I used to gather the footage for the last teaser video.

[hctlan]

That used to work for me too. Open fraps, open Don't Starve and away you go. But just lately after the patch it seems to minimize the fraps overlay. I'm not quite sure what could be causing it. It was working beautifully a few days ago :s

[Aerow]

This is actually something that's been bugging me, too. All of our other games run at 60. DS was capped at 30 because it's not an action game, and our minspec is pretty low. With some recent optimizations that we've done, however, I've been able to get our frame timings under control.

On the next update, the FPS cap has been raised on the steam version to 60, and indeed looks a lot smoother. If your computer can't handle that, it should degrade gracefully (without slow-moing).

The Chrome version will still be 30, though, because of the relatively lower minspec, and the difficulty I've been having doing reliable timing. I might reevaluate this later, but I'm not in a huge rush. Browser game players don't really expect high frame rates

*tears in eyes*I love it.

[Little Teemo]

here's some cleanex!

[Chocolate Tree]

This is actually something that's been bugging me, too. All of our other games run at 60. DS was capped at 30 because it's not an action game, and our minspec is pretty low. With some recent optimizations that we've done, however, I've been able to get our frame timings under control.

On the next update, the FPS cap has been raised on the steam version to 60, and indeed looks a lot smoother. If your computer can't handle that, it should degrade gracefully (without slow-moing).

The Chrome version will still be 30, though, because of the relatively lower minspec, and the difficulty I've been having doing reliable timing. I might reevaluate this later, but I'm not in a huge rush. Browser game players don't really expect high frame rates

So just to make this clear.... on the next update Fps should run "smoothly".... I love to see that you actually concern about this and, yes it is weird that one of your games suffers graphically (old fan)

[Chocolate Tree]

*tears in eyes*I love it.

We shall put his words to test...not that I don't trust him...of course