[blackhole]

I can't get it lower then 137 FPS and have an idle of 2100 FPS

GeForce 7900 GS, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM (no pagefile!)

[Hellstryker]

Me has 2 gigs of RAM

[BloodEagle]

Idle framerates should be around 2000 FPS, but framerates of 600-900 are insane - they should be closer to 120. What CPU do you have?

AMD Athlon 64 (running 32bit) 2.4ghz (not overclocking).

:EDIT:

I wonder if my GeForce has the PhysX chip....

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[blackhole]

Well one reason is that I can produce almost twice as many particles, so your FPS is really only 2x as high as it should be.

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[Ghostavo]

I'm also clicking at the same time I move the mouse, it seems clicking also triggers the event of releasing particles, to create more particles.

[blackhole]

Actually anything having to do with the mouse will create more particles

By buttonsmashing both the left and right mouse buttons I was able to grind my FPS down to 125

I should implement some kind of "particles generated per second" counter so we can all have a contest

[Hellstryker]

Your title should be changed to "I MADE THE FIRST WORKING FPS TESTER!"

[Herra Tohtori]

Your title should be changed to "I MADE THE FIRST WORKING FPS TESTER!"

ಠ_ಠ

Games are the only working FPS testers and will always be. Any other FPS tester simply measures how well a system runs the test application.

[BloodEagle]

Well one reason is that I can produce almost twice as many particles, so your FPS is really only 2x as high as it should be.

Maybe if I had Parkinson's....

Anyway, for some strange reason I idle around 1150. For some even stranger reason, when I hover over the 'close' button, my framerate jumps around 2100 (for about four seconds) and then jumps right back around 1150.


By replacing your image with the one above, I managed to reduce my framerate significantly.

[blackhole]

Parkinson's really wouldn't help in that regard

Your framerate will drop significantly if you use a large image like that because it takes up way more memory space.

As for the bizzare idle thing... I have no idea, in order to test that I'd have to step through the code directly on your machine. Thats weird

Games are the only working FPS testers and will always be. Any other FPS tester simply measures how well a system runs the test application.

He is correct - games put a lot of stress on the CPU that greatly affects FPS.

[blackhole]

I made this into a screensaver of sorts. It doesn't have any configuration properties, but it works.

ParticleSaver

EDIT2: Fixed! Yay! ^^

[BloodEagle]

"The procedure entry point ChangeWindowMessageFilter could not be located in the dynamic link library USER32.dll."

[blackhole]

what the f***? Thats is the weirdest error message I've yet gotten. What are you running this on?

[Hellstryker]

mine can't find PlaneShader.dll

[blackhole]

But I included that DLL!

AAAAAAAARRRGGGGGHHHHH

I am never trying to make a screensaver ever again.

[Hellstryker]

But I included that DLL!

AAAAAAAARRRGGGGGHHHHH

I am never trying to make a screensaver ever again.

Agreed

[BloodEagle]

what the f***? Thats is the weirdest error message I've yet gotten. What are you running this on?

Windows XP Pro w/SP2.

Does it need to be in a specific folder? Because I'm just running the executable in a random folder.

[achtung]

On my home PC I get around 2000 FPS idle, and the lowest I can get it to go while creating particles is 160 FPS.

nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB
2 GB RAM
Core 2 Duo 2.13 Ghz

[blackhole]

Does it need to be in a specific folder? Because I'm just running the executable in a random folder.

No, it doesn't, which is why that doesn't make any sense at all.