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Title: Maximal latency for last N seconds indicator in addition to FPS
Post by: artik on February 03, 2017, 03:30:07 AM
Sometimes it is more important to know the maximal delay you have between frames and not the average, for example if one frame delayed by 0.2s for example due to some texture loading on 60fps capable display you'll get in that second 48fps that is ok but effectively you had 5fps for certain period.

In some cases I feel jumps in certain scenes that feeling to me like latency issues but I barely have any indication in FPS so I can't confirm the feeling with actual numbers.

I remember flightgear giving such a statistics and it is very useful
Title: Re: Maximal latency for last N seconds indicator in addition to FPS
Post by: Greebo on February 03, 2017, 06:36:50 AM
A graph showing what the game is waiting for on each frame would be handy for people wondering what part of their PC to upgrade or to tune the game's graphics options. Lets say there are three lines, one each for the HDD, CPU and video card. Assuming the game is running at the monitor's refresh rate all three stay flat, but if the game slows below the monitor's refresh rate then one of the graphs shows a spike.
Title: Re: Maximal latency for last N seconds indicator in addition to FPS
Post by: DaddyAce on February 04, 2017, 11:31:12 PM
A graph showing what the game is waiting for on each frame would be handy for people wondering what part of their PC to upgrade or to tune the game's graphics options. Lets say there are three lines, one each for the HDD, CPU and video card. Assuming the game is running at the monitor's refresh rate all three stay flat, but if the game slows below the monitor's refresh rate then one of the graphs shows a spike.

I used MSI Ayterburner to determine that my GTX 1060 is the limiting hardware relative to my i3 6100 processor.  You can graph CPU usage, GPU usage, frame rate, etc.  On my machine when frame rates dip below the VSync max of 75 fps for my monitor I can see that the GPU is maxed out, whereas the CPU does not seem to max out.