Forums mIRC Help fupdate setting.

Hi.

I have searched the forum for help on the fupdate setting.

However I have not been able to really figure out if 0, 1 or 100 is good.

If I have a lot of channels, and at some times there is heavy traffic in them, what should the setting be then?

Seems like there is no documentation about this setting in the help file.

Also seems like the way it works, has been changed several times over the years.

Does MiRC set fupfate to a default setting each time it starts?

Is fupdate always enabled, and does it get adjusted automatically up an down?


I have read a LOT of forum posts dating all the way back to 2018, but still I am confused as to how it works, and if low or high numbers should be used with very busy channels.

Thanks in advance

rco133.

This thread has all the informations you need: https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/262262/

Edit:

/fupdate's main idea is to control how fast lines are displayed in mIRC's windows, by reducing the amount of times the display updates.
/fupdate's parameter (0-100) is a maximum delay that will be waited for before the display is updated, but there's a maximum number of lines per second that is calculated, after which mIRC will stop waiting to update the display, so even if you specify 100, mIRC may never wait that long

I couldn't edit my post no more..

/fupdate is more or less still a work in progress
this feature once was an option in alt + o, then it got removed and the option was made permanent, then it was revisited with the above thread and the behavior was changed twice during a beta phase, to be what it is now but there haven't been many feedback about it, which is most likely why there's no documentation about it yet.
Yes, it is set to the default value 0 when mIRC starts.
Yes, it's always enabled. Its behavior is such that internally, there are adjustment made which will make the behavior as though you were executing /fupdate N with N going up and down as you said, but in reality your /fupdate setting never change (you can check $fupdate).

Thanks for the replies.

I already did read that thread, but still wasn't quite sure how it worked.

I can see that if I write /fupdate mirc tells me that it is set to 95.

And even if there is very little activity in all channels, it still shows 95.

I guess it is adjusted dynamically, and the /fupdate command doesn't show what the value currently is. Otherwise in times with very little activity, I guess it would show much lower values.

But maybe I am again misunderstanding how it works :-)

Does /fupdate 0 disable the function, or does it still do its thing in the background?

rco133.

Indeed it looks like Khaled changed the default value without it making it to the changelog!
Well as far as I'm concerned I'd rather see the default still be 0, because in most cases I want lines to be displayed as fast as possible, knowing that not that many lines are going to be displayed so mIRC won't be lacking behind, a point I already made in the original thread but I'm sure there's a good reason it changed.


What is adjusted is an internal value, not the main $fupdate value, they are two differents things. mIRC does not touch the /fupdate value you set.
/fupdate 0 does not disable the function, it simply means that you want mIRC to update the display as much as possible but mIRC may still end up not updating the display as much as possible.