Processor speed

[TJ_Tigger]

Is there a way to determine the processor speed your project is running on? The reason for asking is I am looking at timed events, and with the timer set to three seconds, a fast machine is able to do the processing I want to do within that three seconds and display back to the user. When run on a slower processor it takes longer to process the actions and the display is shown for a shorter period of time before it moves on to the next. Three seconds is still three seconds, but the other actions inbetween those three seconds takes longer. So I was wondering if one could determine the processor speed and pad the timer with additional seconds for a slower processor to give the same effect.

I was also thinking about starting and stopping the timer each time as well, but didn't like that solution as well.

Tigg

[Worm]

HKLM\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\ 0\ProcessorNameString

[Corey]

Cool! This is handy when deploying video for sure as well as a few other things...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[Worm]

The better key to go off would be ~MHz

But you'll have to do the HEX to Decimal conversion.
If you need help with that, let me know.

[TJ_Tigger]

Thanks

I will take it from here.

[TJ_Tigger]

Actually when I get the Registry value it returns in decimal not Hex. But I did find some LUA code that will convert Hex to Decimal. Here is what I did.

processorspeed_hex = Registry.GetValue(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "HARDWARE\\DESCRIPTION\\System\\CentralProcessor\\0 \\", "~MHz", true);
processorspeed_dec = tonumber(processorspeed_hex , 16);
Dialog.Message("Processor Speed", processorspeed_hex .. "\r\n" .. processorspeed_dec, MB_OK, MB_ICONNONE, MB_DEFBUTTON1);

This is the LUA code for converting Hex to Dec

DecimalValue = tonumber(HexString, 16)