[SDL] Simple question: why SDL cannot set a videomode with the refresh rate too?

[Gabriel Gambetta]

Simple but utterly wrong - that has nothing to do with the refresh rate of
the video mode.

I needed to set the refresh rate by hand - in Windows this code should do
the trick:

DEVMODE pDevMode;
memset(&pDevMode, 0, sizeof(DEVMODE));
pDevMode.dmSize = sizeof(DEVMODE);
pDevMode.dmDisplayFrequency = 60;
pDevMode.dmFields = DM_DISPLAYFREQUENCY;
ChangeDisplaySettings(&pDevMode, CDS_FULLSCREEN);

Looking through the windx5 driver code, apparently it's selecting the mode
with the highest refresh rate for each resolution, so I guess it's
technically possible. I don't know why this isn't exposed.

--Gabriel



On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Marek Rehora <m.rehora at gmail.com> wrote:

> Simple answer: because SDL doesn't refresh the screen automaticaly.
> Refresh of the screen is done on your demand.
>
> On 04/04/2008, José Renato <jrcmilanez at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Simple question: why SDL cannot set a videomode with the refresh rate
> > too?
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