Phaser Frame Rate

[hellspawn_bg]

Another noob question over here. Is the phaser frame rate set up to 60 frames per second, or it can go faster as long as the device supports it?

[brejep]

By default, Phaser is using requestAnimationFrame, see here for an explanation - http://www.paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/. It essentially keeps the timing inline with the refresh rate of the display (normally 60fps).

 

To update more often, it looks like you could force Phaser to use timeout instead by sending the game a config option of forceSetTimeOut = true and then you could set game.time.timeToCall to a number of milliseconds less than 1000/60.

 

Depending on what you are updating, you could always do it with a separate timer outside the main game loop.

[hellspawn_bg]

My concern is not to call the update function more often than 60 frames per seconds, as in a lot of parts of my game I am using pre-generated data tweens at 60 frames. If the update function is called more often, let's say at 120 frames, the animation would appear faster.

[xerver]

The cap for requestAnimationFrame is 60 fps, and setTimeouts are generally not going to go any faster than ~16ms (which is ~60fps) so you can't get any higher if you wanted to with js running in the browser.

[hellspawn_bg]

Thank you, xerver.