Astérix Speedrunning: xxl

martyste

now this is weird. Fraps thinks XXL1 pause isn't 48fps, but around 91.

martyste

i can confirm with the fraps recording itself and advancing frame by frame. 89frames of continuous cloud scrolling in a full second.

martyste

We were fooled by the Inspector.

martyste

Olympic games, similar story. 91fps gameplay, 109fps during pause.

martyste

This framerate discrepancy between PC and PS2 may explain the difficulty in doing certain glitches on PS2 compared to PC.

hesopesomeso

How can that be? Each frame must be at the very least 20ms

martyste

but clearly it is not. even the video output doesn't lie!

martyste

the output in question

Download Gamemodule_2024-08-27_08-09-08-32.mp4:

martyste

i could go frame by frame in the raw .avi and the truth was there to behold.

hesopesomeso

The fps counter in KAL (& in cheat tool) counts the number of times it has visited the CKTime update function (= one frame). This should be accurate (as long as the game speed is 1.0). What could be a problem is that KAL only ever once computes the perfomance frequency... and I'm not sure if it can change this drastically.

martyste

clearly the game fails at measuring its own framerate

martyste

fraps is incredibly potent at counting frames

martyste

even those the monitor cannot display

martyste

i remember years ago having fraps on XXL2 showing 90, but my laptop would ofc only refresh 60

alatinn

These two attempts were super close...

alatinn

Download cave_jump.mp4:

alatinn

I mean, ... especially the last one

thanasakis

Seems condom 2.0 I about to born

thanasakis

Maybe

thanasakis

Did you try jump further to the right?

#xxl