Calculating frames per second in a game

Question

What\'s a good algorithm for calculating frames per second in a game? I want to show it as a number in the corner of the screen. If I just look at how long it took to render

Answer 1

In (c++ like) pseudocode these two are what I used in industrial image processing applications that had to process images from a set of externally triggered camera's. Variations in "frame rate" had a different source (slower or faster production on the belt) but the problem is the same. (I assume that you have a simple timer.peek() call that gives you something like the nr of msec (nsec?) since application start or the last call)

Solution 1: fast but not updated every frame

do while (1)
{
    ProcessImage(frame)
    if (frame.framenumber%poll_interval==0)
    {
        new_time=timer.peek()
        framerate=poll_interval/(new_time - last_time)
        last_time=new_time
    }
}

Solution 2: updated every frame, requires more memory and CPU

do while (1)
{
   ProcessImage(frame)
   new_time=timer.peek()
   delta=new_time - last_time
   last_time = new_time
   total_time += delta
   delta_history.push(delta)
   framerate= delta_history.length() / total_time
   while (delta_history.length() > avg_interval)
   {
      oldest_delta = delta_history.pop()
      total_time -= oldest_delta
   }
}