Thanks Chris & Cyrille.  I don't have an nvidia GPU, so I'll see what I can find in the Xorg.conf.  For totally digital displays, how does the refresh rate come into play?  I'm seeing out there that VBL doesn't apply to digital.

I tried single buffer mode with each metro tick banging the gemhead and then clearing the gemwin, but got jittery results with the video stream.  I haven't looked at triple buffering, is there some documentation you could point me to on that?  The reason I want faster than screen rendering is that I'm doing video tracking.  If the control streams from the tracking algorithm can be updated faster than the refresh rate, that would be ideal.  Or is it not possible to run an algorithm on frames that fall between the cracks of the refresh rate and aren't fully displayed on the screen?


On Thursday, May 31, 2012, Cyrille Henry wrote:
hello,
on Linux, you can change vertical syncro that using nvidia-settings tools if you use a nvidia GPU. Otherwise, i don't know, certainly tweking the Xorg.conf.
(look for"sync to Vblank")

Using triple buffer may provide solution for faster than screen rendering, but i don't see the point in that.
If you have a shader or somthing else that sould be faster than sreen rendering, you still can bang gemhead with a metro...

cheers
cyrille

Le 30/05/2012 21:22, chris clepper a écrit :
GEM is set to VBL sync based on your monitor's refresh rate.  I vaguely recall putting some sort of message about turning this on and off in the gemwin.  With it off you will often see horrible tearing artifacts on the display, which is why it defaults to 'on' on OSX (and apparently Linux too).

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:15 PM, William Brent <william.brent@gmail.com <mailto:william.brent@gmail.com>> wrote:

   Hi list,

   I'm trying to get the fastest possible frame rate from GEM, and seem
   to be hitting a limit of 60fps.  Is this a known limit?  I searched
   the documentation and pd-list archives, but maybe I'm missing
   something.  The final application I'm working on is video tracking,
   but here's a test patch with nothing more than a gemwin and a counter
   incremented by the gemhead.  With a frame rate of 90 for the gemwin,
   it takes exactly 3 seconds to get the counter up to 180, when it
   should only take 2 seconds.  At a frame rate of 60, it takes the
   expected 2 seconds to get the counter to 120.

   I'm running this with Pd-0.43-2 and GEM 0.93.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 using
   the -noaudio flag.  I get the same results on Mac OS 10.6.8.


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