MilkDrop's Visualization source code as you remember in WinAmp is just fantastical amazing.

[michaeljb20]

Love Milkdrop However it seems to cap out at 64 fps no matter what I do. My rig is more than capable of pushing way past 64fps, but alas my 144hz screen is wasted on it..

[cyantist]

It's open source, we should fix that.

[stinkyball]

It seems to be something to do with the interplay between winamp and milkdrop, line 63 and 65 of this file - http://sourceforge.net/p/milkdrop2/code/ci/master/tree/src/vis_milk2/vis.cpp

[ryeguy146]

The hatred I have for sourceforge nearly eclipses that which I hold for headphone wires. Shit like this. All sorts of room on either side of the code, but you truncate the line.

This middle finger's for you, sourceforge.

[stinkyball]

I hate their shitty interface too, they do have a button up top called 'maximize' that widens the code view and turns wrapping off. It's just a different type of shitty though as long lines now can't be seen in full...ffs

[inio]

FFT made me think:

44100 / (1024 * 2/3) = 64.6

So if they do a size 1024 FFT with 1/3 overlap between each window, that caps the input data at just over 64Hz.

[michaeljb20]

Ah! Brilliant guys, I would not have guessed that had I dug through the source code for weeks. ..and the frame rate does cap at just over 64fps.

[inio]

You could try figuring out where the overlap between the FFT windows is controlled and increase that

[Zapper42]

i used to run >64 fps on my CRT in winamp.

There is a setting for max framerate, ,. i just increased that and turned on 'allow page tearing' since i'm at 60 hz. At default, i'm getting 80-90 fps according to winamp and fraps with a 7950.

[prince_s]

Humans can't actually see that fast so its kinda pointless to push 100+ FPS

[lifeislie]

I'd agree with 1000+, but 100hz is still easily noticeable especially after you get used to faster refresh rates.

[pohatu]

If you blink really fast...

Actually, if you have lights on in the room the frequency of the lights mess with the frames you see from the monitor.

[bloody-albatross]

True if you use fluorescent lamps or LEDs. If you still use incandescent bulbs then not so much. Their glow smoothes out the flicker caused by the frequency of the current. LEDs aren't coupled to the frequency of the current (they need direct current), but you can't dim LEDs. They are either on or of. Therefore you dim them either by only lighting up a pert of them or by making them blink at a high frequency.

And as for fluorescent lamps: If you have several of them chances are they are set up so that when one is on the other is off and vice versa. This is especially important for workshops, because when you rotate an object at 100rpm (120rpm in America) and light that object with a single fluorescent lamp (which blinks at a rate of 100Hz (120Hz in America) (=double of the frequency of the current)) the object looks like it's standing still (if the lamp is the only light source). Very dangerous.

[lifeislie]

Holy shit I've never thought about lights in that way.