Frame rate

[John van Hulst]

The frame rate G-Force uses seems to vary around 32-33 fps (on a PC with a PIII 1.1 Ghz and a NVIDIA GeForce4 -GeForce: haha- MX440). I'd like to fix this rate to 25 fps, as I'm using a screen capture program to record G-Force into a PAL (PAL=25 fps) movie. (Yes, I'm waiting for the PC version of Darkroom desperately...How about this, Andy?). Could anyone tell me if this can be done? Maybe through a script? And if through a script, could somebody write this for me?

Thanks in advance, John

[ethan_greer]

Add a line to your Prefs file: FPS = "25"

(You may or may not need the quotes - use other lines from the Prefs file as a guide. I don't have G-Force at work so I can't be certain...)

From the documentation:

G-Force will attempt to maintain a frame rate that matches the value specified in this pref. If G-Force has a frame rate below what you specify, it's because (a) your system isn't fast enough to achieve the desired frame rate for the current frame dimensions, or (b) the host media player is electing not to have G-Force draw as often as possible. At this point, only decreasing the frame size, exiting other applications, or switching media players can increase frame rate.
Note that some media players only call a visual plugin a maximum number of times per second (and nothing can be done to change that other than abandon that media player). Also note that it takes a few seconds for G-Force to stabilize on the desired frame rate when a step-change in CPU load occurs (ex, window size change, multiple overlays added at once).

[Toby]

I have one caution to add to Ethan's reply. The FPS variable only specifies the frame-rate that G-Force will try to maintain. If you increase the size of your GF window to much, or if very conplex configs are being calculated and shown, or if some external process grabs to much CPU-time, frame-rate will fall below the specified 25 fps.
Take care.

[andy55]

Add a line to your Prefs file: FPS = "25"

(You may or may not need the quotes - use other lines from the Prefs file as a guide. I don't have G-Force at work so I can't be certain...)

From the documentation:

G-Force will attempt to maintain a frame rate that matches the value specified in this pref. If G-Force has a frame rate below what you specify, it's because (a) your system isn't fast enough to achieve the desired frame rate for the current frame dimensions, or (b) the host media player is electing not to have G-Force draw as often as possible. At this point, only decreasing the frame size, exiting other applications, or switching media players can increase frame rate.
Note that some media players only call a visual plugin a maximum number of times per second (and nothing can be done to change that other than abandon that media player). Also note that it takes a few seconds for G-Force to stabilize on the desired frame rate when a step-change in CPU load occurs (ex, window size change, multiple overlays added at once).

Yep--that's it. The 'FPS' line will already be in your prefs file--so you just need to find it and edit the number next to it.

Andy