{"id":2352,"date":"2024-09-13T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2024-09-13T17:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T16:03:49","slug":"mdk-for-mac-os-fps-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/?p=2352","title":{"rendered":"MDK for Mac OS FPS Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MDK for Mac OS FPS Counter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As well as the really nice graphics speed benchmark in the menu, the Mac OS version of MDK also has a built in frame counter! This can be handy for comparing the performance of different video cards on computers in this type of workload (pushing pixels to the screen – raw graphics performance not using QuickDraw) on PowerPC Macs. This game is surprisingly well optimised for a port to the platform. Genuinely, hats off to the programmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To enable the FPS display, type “frate”. If your computer is a bit slow, don’t type it too quickly, type it with purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I swear I read about this feature on a website once, but I just spent half an hour trying to find this tip, even searching ‘MDK “frate”‘ and I didn’t get useful results. Hopefully this post will help someone else out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MDK Frame Counter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The counter appears to give the FPS as “<current> (<average>)” in the bottom right, under the health HUD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you haven’t also seen the graphics benchmark, it runs routines manipulating on screen pixels and compares your computer to the performance of a 100MHz 601, a 145MHz 604e, and a 275MHz 603e. Basically you might say, an 8100\/100, a 9500\/150 and a 6400\/275. Yes, I can’t find any 145MHz 604e based Macs, I’m not sure they existed, even that 9500 is possibly a 604, not a 604e. The benchmark is available at Main Menu > Options > Performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MDK Graphics Benchmark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I have been testing an underwhelming computer \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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