Flipping Flip

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Hi Marg, I've been away, sorry not to answer...

I'm not sure this is achieving anything:

Text 0,0, (MilliSecs()-time%)/(frames%/10)

and measuring fps with flip false, I don't quite understand what that achieves, it disables frame synching, but why is that a good thing?

anyway, this is a fps timer, someone else posted the timer part

Open in online IDE

Graphics 800,600
SetBuffer BackBuffer()
ScreenFont = LoadFont("arial",24)
SetFont ScreenFont

While Not KeyHit(1)	
	Cls	
	Color 255,50,50	
	Rect 0,0,150,50		
	Gosub FrameCounter
	Color 255,255,255
	Text 20,20,"fps="+FPS		
	Flip
Wend

FreeFont ScreenFont
End

.FrameCounter
	Frame% = Frame%+1	
	If SecondTimerOn = False Then 
		OneSecond# = MilliSecs() + 1000
		StartFrame% = Frame%
		SecondTimerOn = True		
	Else 
		If MilliSecs() > OneSecond# Then
			SecondTimerOn = False
			FPS% = Frame%-StartFrame%	
		EndIf
	EndIf	
	Return

it gives me 100 fps in BlitzPlus and Blitz Basic 2D, maybe you can see what it gives you. Just to be sure, I timed fps in a number of game loops in Blitz+ and Blitz2D, by putting a timer in various sample games, and the FPS was exactly the same in both.

In my own game efforts, I've found that exe's compiled with Blitz+ run more smoothly on older systems, so I'm pretty happy with it overall...

hope this helps, and all the best :)