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− | '''Rounding''' is the phenomenon which occurs in [[Perfect Dark]] when the last time displayed on the on-screen game timer is a second faster than the time which eventually comes up on the end screen.
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− | For example: you finish a level and the last frame shows 0:55.97. Perfect Dark usually rounds times downwards to the nearest whole second meaning this should earn you a time of 0:55. But the game gives you a time of 0:56.
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− | ==Why rounding occurs==
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− | Rounding occurs simply because '''the timer keeps running after the last frame'''. The in-game timer does not update itself once every frame, it updates once every hundredth of a second, whether there's a new frame going up on the screen this instant or not. After the last frame, depending on the frame rate (which in turn depends on how many other in-game characters are around, how many explosions are nearby, whether anybody is saying anything at the time, and so on), as much as a tenth of a second can pass in which no frame loads but the timer keeps running.
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− | In addition, even though conditions may be optimal at the end of the level (you're looking at the floor, there's nobody nearby, e.g. [[Carrington Institute: Defense]]), the game ALWAYS spends a brief moment not updating the screen, but still counting time, while simultaneously quietly loading the outro cinematic sequence. This is a fixed period of time (which varies by level, however) which cannot be reduced, and also adds to the size of the potential rounding error.
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− | Make no mistake: the game didn't cheat you out of a second. You ran 0:56. The SCREEN cheated you out of knowing it. It's all, ultimately, technology's fault.
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− | [[Category:Perfect Dark]]
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Latest revision as of 07:43, 1 June 2025
My name is Madie (21 years old) and my hobbies are Tennis and Gaming.
Visit my blog post: Hollister Discount