Article on v-sync and timing

General Discussion
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The always hotly debated subject has been blessed with yet another article written by Peter here at Turborilla.



It's a bit different to many other articles in that it takes a more analytical approach, which is good because this issue should be settled early in a project.



Anyway, what do you think of it?



http://turborilla.com/developer-diary/timestepping.html



One of the described approaches really did wonders for Mad Skills Motocross, improving it immensely on slower computers.

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Very informative, thanx for sharing :slight_smile:

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This is news to me  :-o



So, would I be better off with a fixed timestep game loop?



(Thank you for sharing!)

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Depends on your game, that’s the “new” point of this particular article. It gives you tools to analyse different approaches. Mad Skills Motocross now uses a variable fixed timestep :slight_smile: which means it’s fixed to 60Hz, but changes to 30Hz or even 15Hz when needed. And then back up again (could have been some antivirus eating cycles for a while. I’m looking at you, Norton)