Tool for measuring FPS in games

[Svartalf]

A programmer friend of mine says it needs to count framebuffer flips?

Anyway, for this to be useful at all it needs to work with nvidia/ati drivers, so I suppose hacking up drivers is out of the question.

The big problem lies in that there is no answers for you that don't require a bit of programming effort on your part at this time.

BuGlE will compile out of box on most systems without user intervention- but it requires a smidge of understanding about how to drive it, which isn't easy because it's more a debugging tool for developers than what you're actually looking for. It will, however do precisely what you're looking for. But...as I've said, there's a bit of assembly required for the parts to make it go. And it'll work with just about any 3D drivers for Linux.

[dammarin]

A programmer friend of mine says it needs to count framebuffer flips?

Anyway, for this to be useful at all it needs to work with nvidia/ati drivers, so I suppose hacking up drivers is out of the question.

[whizse]

I'm pretty sure the PTS simply uses the built in FPS counter in the games themselves.

I'm not really sure how something more general could be implemented, but I would guess it would be possible to hack something up in the drivers?

[dammarin]

Nobody?

Is something like this doesn't exist, how hard/expensive would it be to make it?

[dammarin]

AFAICT, nothing like this exists for Linux. Is it at all possible to do?

Clearly the Phoronix Test Suite measures FPS of various games, but I'm not a programmer and wouldn't be able to make nor heads nor tails from it.

Basically, I'm looking for even a quick-and-dirty solution which would show the FPS of an app (game) and dump it into a file for further processing. If possible, both for Linux and OS X.

Any ideas?

Thanks.