[SDL] Forcing a refresh rate

[Peter Mulholland]

Hello Gabriel,

Sunday, September 10, 2006, 6:51:09 PM, you wrote:

> Hi guys,

> We're adapting one of our games to run in touchscreen machines for the
> skill-with-prizes market.

> The testers at one of the networks complain that the touchscreens are
> "miscalibrated" with the game. After a bit of investigation, the problem
> appears to be that the game sets the 800x600 video mode at 85Hz, and
> they request that we alter it to 60Hz.

> The game uses SDL without doing anything weird (ie pretty standard init
> code). Also, because they use ancient machines with Windows NT and
> DirectX 3.0 I'm not sure if the game is running with the directx or the
> windib driver (and for several reasons I'd rather not ask them to look
> at the log file)

> In either case, is there any way to force a specific refresh rate?

It will be using WinDIB.

From a quick read of SDL_dibvideo.c, the refresh rate is cloned from
the desktop refresh rate. So, if you set the desktop to 60Hz, the new
screen should be 60Hz too.

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 Peter                            mailto:darkmatter at freeuk.com