Get CPU Speed

Small dll for blitz that allows you to get the CPU speed in MHz, this is useful for automatically adjusting game settings according to CPU speed. The .dll takes about 1 second to get the information.

www.indiepath.com/tim/cpuspeed.zip

Unzip dll to your application directory and put the .decls in the unserlibs folder.

speed% = CPUSpeed()

Filax did something a few months ago that had this as a part of the whole process... I think.

I could not find anything on any of the Blitz sites so I made my own.

I wasn't trying to slam you. Really. I have the full IDE somewhere but I don't see it in USERLIBS anymore. That is the problem. When some people leave in a huff and noise they insist on taking their free help with them... Sad because it had a lot of great things including: memsize, memused, finger, printer, get version, encrypt, readfromregistry, writetoregistry...etc.

:)
-RZ

No offence taken. I did update the .dll and it has two of those commands you mentioned.

avail% = AvailPhysicalMem() : How Much Memory is Available
total% = TotalPhysicalRAM() : How Much Memory is Installed

Cheers.

Those are good too... I am hoping for more control of windows API... I have started learning how to use my DELPHI to create DLLs. I say started because I have only just got to the point where I realize how much I need to learn!
-RZ

Great work, But for benchmark and games automatically adjusting, there is more to think of than CPU speed. I tend to render a few frames of my game, give it a score, compare the score to the test systems, and adjust detail of the weaker bits that way. a 4ghz processor is not necesarily going to be 2x as good as a 2ghz one :)

There are of course, many other uses for these ;)

I agree, this is a good starting place for benchmarking. I too render a number of frames to see what the GFX card can handle, a mix of the two gives a pretty good idea as to how to adjust the game.