Limiting FPS by modifying love.run()

[broccoli]

I'm playing around with deliberately trying to limit the FPS of my game. I've modified love.run to do this, using an accumulator and updating every 1/30th of a second. I believe this should only draw to the screen once every 1/30th of a second, approximately.

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	            ...
		    if love.timer then dt = love.timer.step() end
		    accumulator = accumulator + dt
		    if accumulator >= tick_rate then
			    accumulator = 0
			    if love.update then love.update() end
			    if love.graphics and love.graphics.isActive() then
				    love.graphics.origin()
				    love.graphics.clear(love.graphics.getBackgroundColor())
				    if love.draw then love.draw() end
				    love.graphics.present()
			    end
		    end
		    if love.timer then love.timer.sleep(0.001) end

For some reason, love.timer.getFPS() reports very high FPS (400+) even with vsync on. Why is this?

[zorg]

Hi and welcome to the forums!

Löve uses its internal timer... internally, to calculate the value you get back with getFPS and with related functions as well; basically, it's all dependent on the love.timer.step() call, which -is- outside your fixed time step function.

getFPS does not do any magic with detecting how fast löve renders frames to the gpu, basically.

You could redefine the function, to return 1 / tick_rate, but... that's kinda pointless if implemented exactly like that.