fps - how to divide count by time function to determine fps

Question

I have a counter working that counts every frame. what I want to do is divide this by time to determine the FPS of my program. But I\'m not sure how to perform operations on tim

Answer 1

You might want to do something in this taste:

def program():
  start_time = time.time() #record start time of program
  frame_counter = 0

  # random logic 
  for i in range(0, 100):
    for j in range(0, 100):
      # do stuff that renders a new frame
      frame_counter += 1 # count frame

  end_time = time.time() #record end time of program
  fps = frame_counter / float(end_time - start_time)

Of course you don't have to wait the end of the program to compute end_time and fps, you can do it every now and then to report the FPS as the program runs. Re-initing start_time after reporting the current FPS estimation could also help with reporting a more precise FPS estimation.