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Like what use does it have?Skips frames, DUH
Like what use does it have?Skips frames, DUH
There are certain things in the game that are coded and created for Frame Skip to be on, which pretty much is an FPS cap at 60 FPS. If you turn it off you'll notice things, like for example, the Bubble Machine. The bubbles with spawn and move faster as they look better when Frame Skip is on. Also frame skip helps with YouTubers who like recording Terraria, as when a game is running at a smooth constant FPS it tends to record smoothly with no lag.Skips frames, DUH
Can I just ask...
What does frameskip do?
What does frameskip do?
New pc, fresh install on an SSD. Anyway, I am sure Windows 7 defragments drives itself, since I never have any fragmentation on my drives.Have you tried cleaning/defragmenting your hard drive lately? If so I'd advise it as it helps with running games faster and smoother.
There are certain things in the game that are coded and created for Frame Skip to be on, which pretty much is an FPS cap at 60 FPS. If you turn it off you'll notice things, like for example, the Bubble Machine. The bubbles with spawn and move faster as they look better when Frame Skip is on. Also frame skip helps with YouTubers who like recording Terraria, as when a game is running at a smooth constant FPS it tends to record smoothly with no lag.
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That's nice and all, and I would have accepted an answer like that for my old machine, but my current pc is freshly installed, so I highly doubt some program has messed up XNA and .NET. And if it did, I would expect Terraria to either provide an error message or be more robust about it.
I'm also not running a dozen other programs while playing a game. When I play Terraria, I'm playing Terraria, not typing letters or editing sounds or photoshopping pictures and whatnot.
Drivers, like I said, new pc, so new drivers.
Anyway, I guess I'm not going to see a solution for this problem then. It's not that a big deal thankfully, since disabling frame skipping solves it for 99%. But I admit I am a bit disappointed. I know I am not the only one with this problem, there were others on the old forums. I just wish we would at least have gotten an acknowledgement that the problem exists.
This is not even your thread is it? In this case, I doubt I even posted the typical help post I have. I will post this for both of you as a checklist to make sure you all have what you need!So i need to re install terraria?
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I don't play games while I'm installing things. Whenever I install something I get a drink or watch tv or something. I don't take the chance of files being in use or whatever. Reading your post I get the feeling you're trying to brush me off as an incompetent neanderthal keyboard smasher who happened to find the power on button of his pc by accident. Sure, it's been a while since I worked in ICT, but I haven't gone senile yet. (Or have I? )
Anyway, to humour you I've just reinstalled .net, XNA and Visual C++ from the links you provided, one at a time, without playing games or doing anything else during installation and I restarted the system. Problem persists.
My apologies for my tone, but I can't help but feel annoyed.
Have you used these settings at all? Stupid questions:
- Are you using a clean client? (No modded, hacked, pirated clients)
- Frame Skip On
- Lighting: Color
- Multicore Lighting: 4
- Quality: High
- Background: On
Private profile.proof: Click!
Ah, yes, figures. Me being paranoid and all. Here's a picture.Private profile.
I don't mind at all and there's none, I can play the game fine without it due to the game limiting frames to 60 most of the time. And if it goes into light speed, then alt-tabbing will reset it back to 60 again.If you don't mind me asking, is there a specific reason you'd like frame skip on?
Third party hooks can usually be problematic (such as fraps, bandicam, even Steam itself). I'd suggest to turn off any program that can possibly hook into the game and try it out this way (in steam's case, turning off the in-game overlay is known to potentially improve performances). Also the backgrounds are poorly optimized and will make the game lag next to always. Even then it is indeed weird for frame skip to cause such issues it is currently meant to fix instead. As far as I can say Frame Skip only works as a frames limiter and poorly does its job.