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From: "Alex Herbert" <alex@herbs.dabsol.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Consecutive VSync(0) calls...
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:34:14 -0000
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Steven Osman <sosman@terratron.com> wrote in message
news:388742d7.3707031359@news.playstation.co.uk...
> Hey,
>
> I was curious, what does the following bit of code do?
>
> VSync(0);
> VSync(0);
>
> The first call clearly waits for a vsync...  Does the second call
> return immediately, or wait for the next vsync?
>
> Steven
>

Hi,

The second call should wait for the next vsync, thus dropping the frame
rate.  I wouldn't advise doing this though because you would always loose
1/50th second (1/60th for NTSC) of CPU/GPU time.  If you need to run at a
lower frame rate it would be far better to use VSync(2).


Herbs