Getting Frame Rate in DirectX

I was wondering what is the best to get the frame rate. I saw many differnet ways of doing it but the one I know how to do is using the windows timers, like SetTimer(). But I'm not sure if that is a good way or the best way.

EDIT: Also were should my drawing events for d3d go? I have them in the loop were you translate the windows messages but that seems to lag horibly, even freeze at times.

thanks

Inside of you main loop you call Render() and pass the frame time delta for that frame.

Code:

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//
// WinMain
//
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                                  HINSTANCE prevInstance,
                                  PSTR cmdLine,
                                  int showCmd)
{
  //Create window for app
  if(!g_ZeldaApp.InitD3D(hInstance,
                                    WIDTH,
                        HEIGHT,
                        false,
                        D3DDEVTYPE_HAL,
                        &g_pDevice))
        {
                ::MessageBox(0, "InitD3D() - FAILED", 0, 0);
                return 0;
        }
       
  if(!Setup())
        {
                ::MessageBox(0, "Setup() - FAILED", 0, 0);
                return 0;
        }
 
  g_ZeldaApp.EnterMsgLoop(Display);

       
  //We are done so clean up the memory and COM objects
  Cleanup();
 
  //Give our device back to COM
  g_pDevice->Release();
 
  return 0;
}

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Code:

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int CD3DApp::EnterMsgLoop(bool (*DisplayFunc)(float timeDelta))
{
        MSG msg;
        ::ZeroMemory(&msg, sizeof(MSG));

        static float lastTime = (float)timeGetTime();

        while(msg.message != WM_QUIT)
        {
                if(::PeekMessage(&msg, 0, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE))
                {
                        ::TranslateMessage(&msg);
                        ::DispatchMessage(&msg);
                }
                else
    {       
                        float currTime  = (float)timeGetTime();
                        float timeDelta = (currTime - lastTime)*0.001f;

                        DisplayFunc(timeDelta);

                        lastTime = currTime;
    }
  }
    return msg.wParam;
}

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That's how I've set mine up. There are other ways to do it.

Display is a function pointer that points to Render().

Bubba, I just recognised that code from the book I just started reading.

Yep it works fairly well too so I figured if it wasn't broke, why fix it? However, I did encapsulate everything inside of a class instead of just using namespaces and I've added audio, input, texture, memory, and other resource initialization to the app.

Good book but some of the ways he does things is not the best IMO.

The sample framework in D3D looks a bit like this as well.

thanks alot, that looks perfect.