LCD Smartie

blingbling · Post by **blingbling** » January 25th, 2006, 11:08 pm

Is there anyway of showing your fps on LCD smartie

blingbling · Post by **blingbling** » January 26th, 2006, 12:16 am

Just to say ive now got it to show fps,

ReverseEngineered · January 26th, 2006, 3:04 am

Could you please tell us how you did this, in case other people have a similar question?

blingbling · Post by **blingbling** » January 26th, 2006, 11:40 am

Ok 1st off you need to down load RivaTuner from here Install it and click on in the little icon next to Customise and select hardware monitoring then click setup on the next screen that apears and make sure that framerate has a tick next to it click ok and make sure the red record button has been selcted then close the window, and click ok again.
Now you need to run the RivaTuner Stats server untick all the options that say Enable OSD unless you want the franmerate to be shown on your monitor as well and close this window make sure that both programs are running in the system tray.
Then in LCD Smartie enter this line
FPS $dll(cut.dll,1,68#5,$LogFile(c:\Program Files\RivaTuner v2.0 RC 15.8\HardwareMonitoring.hml,1))

Thanks to naps1saps as got the idea from his screen which you can view here

Hope this helps

I am currently trying to get this screen only to show up once the FPS change from N/A ie when you start a game will update this post if find out how to do it!!

****UPDATE****

I have now managed to get it to show only when your in the game
Select the actions tab in LCD smartie and input this line
IF $dll(cut.dll,1,yy#1$File(c:\Program Files\RivaTuner v2.0 RC 15.8\HardwareMonitoring.hml,1)) <> N THEN ENABLESCREEN(x)

yy being charater to output from HardwareMonitoring.hml it was 64 for me
x being screen number

Hope this helps somebody

blingbling · Post by **blingbling** » January 26th, 2006, 4:34 pm

If anyone knows another way of doing this without running rivatuner please can they let me know or what about a dedicated plugin for LCD Smartie?

ReverseEngineered · January 26th, 2006, 6:41 pm

The reason I asked is because measuring FPS is a notoriously difficult problem.

If you are inside of a game, then the game is sending the commands to draw frames, so it can tell exactly how many frames it has had time to draw. However, no other program really knows.

Instead, using RivaTuner's hardware monitoring will directly talk to the video card to find this information out. I assume--given the name--that this program requires an nVidia Riva chipset, or at least an nVidia chipset. In this case, somebody would have to do a lot of research on the common drivers (essentially nVidia's and ATI's) and determine if there is a hardware monitoring facility available, and how to determine FPS from there.

If anybody has more information to add to this, it would be appreciated. I'm certainly not about to undertake the aforementioned task.

blingbling · Post by **blingbling** » January 26th, 2006, 6:44 pm

Actually im using a ATI Radion 9800 Graphics card

ReverseEngineered · January 26th, 2006, 9:54 pm

Ah, I see. RivaTuner also supports ATI cards. Looks like a very thorough program to me!