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[Kogut]

Especially visible after setting uncapped FPS. It is a bit irritating as showed FPS is moving average, so it is necessary to wait around 20 seconds after disabling pause to see real speed of game.

I reported it as http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=5671 but was closed as feature request.

[nxcho]

+1
A normalized moving average would show a more "true" value.

[Elone]

But when you uncap the FPS value, your CPU outputs as much FPS as possible. When you pause the game, CPU can output even more FPS because it's not having to calculate AI/terrain in realtime. You may not like it, but it's working just as one would expect, and there's nothing to be done about it whatsoever.

-1025

[King Mir]

This is easy enough to fix by resetting the FPS on PAUSE/UNPAUSE, or by keeping a separate FPS for the paused an unpaused data (so it would average in data from the last time the game was pause when unpaused).

[NW_Kohaku]

Actually, yes there is a reason not to do it this way - the FPS being talked about is not the graphic FPS (which is a different measurement), it's the number of game-ticks being calculated per second... and when the game is paused, the game-ticks being calculated are zero.

The FPS meter is only useful as a measurement of how much the game is lagging while the game is running - showing bogus values because the game was paused completely destroys the entire point of having an FPS meter in the first place.

Further, there is something very simple to be done - just stop sampling FPS when the game is paused!  It's that simple!

[Elone]

Further, there is something very simple to be done - just stop sampling FPS when the game is paused!  It's that simple!

You mean, keep the counter history in a stack, and just suspend pushing while paused? I thought that they want it to keep counting WHILE paused, which is a no-go. But your idea would have much more utility than currently, I like your way of thinking! =)

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Offtopic though, you can put up a debug screen in Minecraft, which used to be useful for the sake of showing coordinates and facing and such. Nowadays if I activate the thing, I drop from about 40fps (measured with a different benchmark) to 3fps! Talk about accurate fps measurement! And I'll mention that the resulting graphs cover your screen, including the coordinates which you probably wanted to see the most. They have issues with fps counters as well.

Wait, Kogut is the op?