Stuttering on laptop...until fraps runs

[whitwhoa]

I have a pretty basic opengl application which is reading in a mesh, applying a texture and rendering it to the screen. There is a basic “camera” setup that allows you to pan around the object. On my main windows 10 pc everything runs as expected. I recently put together a release build and tested it on my windows 10 laptop and the application stutters quite noticeably when in fullscreen (in windowed mode it’s un-usable).

I decided to run fraps to see what the framerate was doing and to my surprise once loaded the application was smooth as butter at ~540 frames (fullscreen and windowed).

Seems quite odd that fraps increased the framerate. I’m wondering if anyone else would have an idea as to what’s going on?

[WilliamKappler]

Are you using double buffering? One possibility that came to mind is that commands are being queued but not executed in a reasonable amount of time. If you’re not using double buffering and also not using glFinish()/glFlush(), that could be the cause.

It may also be interesting to see if the same happens on other computers or at least other driver versions (perhaps under Mesa).