>Has anyone found a really great way to check the CPU speed of a computer so
>that the presentation can be branched to a high/low quality version?
>BuddyAPI will get the speed of the computer but just on a PC, not a Mac.
>InstallXtra is cross-platform but doesn't get the CPU speed, just the type.
>Any thoughts? TIA.
The way I've done this in the past is to repeatedly do whatever the
most demanding thing is, and then time it. For example, if you want
to do a cross-fade of full screen graphics by changing the blend, or
just a cut on slower machines, do a few blends of your title screen.
Something like this:
on exitframe
starttimer
counter = 0
repeat while the timer < 60
set the blend of sprite 1 to 199 - the blend of sprite 1
--this will make the graphic become a blend of 100 then 99 then 100, etc
updatestage
counter = counter + 1
if counter = 6 then exit repeat
end repeat
set gFastmachine = (counter=6)
end
On a fast machine, the six blends would happen so fast that there
would be almost no delay. On the slowest machine, the longest delay
would be one second. By that time you know whether the machine is
fast enough to do at least six blends a second.
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