You don't need to provide an FPS counter, we should be able to use things like FRAPS to handle that. The actual numerical framerate is unlikely to have much of an effect on the final score, though; it's more about smoothness and stuttering, as you say. Things like load times might also come into this.

It's a similar thing with stability. We might run the process viewer in the background to see whether you're allocating 4K every frame or a leak tracker or something, but whether or not the game crashes is the more important factor.

Look, just make it as high performance and robust as possible, mmmkay? [smile]