Finally, my Statistics is Out!

A while ago I did some tests and wrote up an article on some performance statistics, and it has finally gone live! You see, in December AMD released OCAT, which is essentially a convenient front-end for PresentMon, a powerful tool that is not the easiest thing to work with. Well, I wanted to work with OCAT so I could put it to use when reviewing games, but I first wanted to do some experimentation with it, to make sure I could do what I wanted to do with it and to see what various things I could do with it.
That experimentation I decided to do in Serious Sam Fusion 2017, because it allowed me to also test on three different APIs (DX11, OpenGL, and Vulkan) and OCAT/PresentMon works with all three. The result was plenty of data to process, and while I initially created an Excel template I switched to using R, which is something I may have mentioned before, as I am now also using it with The Body on Games data. Anyway, the point is the article I wrote about collecting performance data with OCAT and processing it into characteristic values, graphs, and even video overlays is finally live! I named it Serious Statistics, because I needed some name for it, and that made some sense to me.
Since I wrote that article, I have not stopped working on the R scripts I had written. In fact, just this past week I was (at last) successful in making the scripts for generating the graphs for video overlays multithreaded. This can greatly increase the speed at which the graphs (typically in the thousands) are generated. I also set up the scripts to save text files with the characteristic values, because those will be a bit easier to read through than having R open and looking at its output. So ahppy to finally see it live and I am looking forward to putting it all to use in the future.

Crazy Week

This has been a pretty crazy week for me, but in the end, everything has ended up pretty well. Means I am going to have a busy Summer, but it should also be pretty fun. Not that my Summer would not have been busy or fun otherwise, but it should be a nice change of pace.
In the mean time, I have a few projects I really should work on, including recording some SOMA. Hopefully I will get that started tomorrow, but it is hard to say. This week has been crazy enough that I really do not know what this coming week will be like.

Sometimes You Can't Have Nice Things

This has been another interesting week with an interview, an outreach, and a somewhat confusing situations, but none of that am I going to share. Either I do not want to share anything that specific about my life, or I do not want to speak ill of someone/something without first addressing it with them/it. But I am not without something to share:
Sometimes you just can't get something to work right. I thought I had it all set up for a special recording to mark The Body on Games channel turning one year old later this month, but the video was horribly stuttering, and I don't know why. It looks like I will need to do something else, or nothing because I already deleted the game I did the recording in, and do not want to download it again. Might change my mind, but that isn't how I feel right now. I guess I can always think of something else to do to.

Interesting Week and Hopefully More to Come

It has been an interesting week for me and hopefully, with some luck, this week will be even more interesting. If nothing else, at least I will finally get to do a science experiment I have had on my mind for years, assuming everything behaves nicely.
But, I do not feel like talking much about that now. What I would rather do is talk about The Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 which I finally got to see earlier today. Normally I would try to go to a Thursday-evening show, but that was not going to work out, so today it was. I definitely enjoyed it, though at times the camp got a bit severe. Still, I enjoyed it and found to be a fine and good movie. It does have a different character from the first, and I mean the character of the movie not a character within the movie. It is more serious, though still fun, and focused on the Guardians' family. It does make me wonder how certain elements of the MCU will be handled in the future, since some themes will almost certainly be brought back in later films. We will just have to wait and see.