[Patch] Auto Frameskip - update page 3

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think about it in frames, you have 50 frames to do in a second, if you can't do that, without frameskipping, it will just make the second longer to allow time to render them all, which in turn makes the game go slower. but with frame skipping, it will discard frames to make up for that loss of time. so that it can still make that 1 second deadline but just not render some of the frames to get there. Lets say the scene is a guy running, because you're losing frames, you might not see all his running motion when he goes from point a to point b, might miss a step or the movement of his legs depending on how many frames are dropped.

A crude example would be a strobe light. if you are in a normally lit room, you see everything as it happens in full speed and full motion, you move your hand from up to down, you see it move the entire time from up to down, you can see the path it took and every little movement it took to get there. now turn all the lights off, and turn on a strobe light, and move your hand in front of you, you can see your hand make it from up to down or but you can't see the entire path you took to get there, you can't see every movement it took to get to where it was when it was down. that's what it will look like on the screen, you're dropping frames to keep the game running at full speed.

what auto frame skip does (or should do) is drop the number of frames necessary so that in one real second, the game advances one game second. instead of stretching that game second over several real seconds because the framerate is too low.