Okay I did a lot more digging and believe it's actually an issue to do
with schedule_interval and the way it works out when it should be next
scheduled.

I have created an issue in the issue tracker and have provided a
refactored implementation which I believe should fix it.

See: http://code.google.com/p/pyglet/issues/detail?id=428

On Jun 27, 1:40 pm, Tristam MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Gachuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Well with my example above i'm not sure if Vsync is enabled, I know if
> > you create a window then vsync will be by default.
>
> > With Tristam suggestion of updating as fast as possible i.e. with
> > schedule not schedule_interval and letting vsync control the FPS then
> > I do get more often than not 16ms.
> > However I do get an alarming amount of stray 30ms timings, now while
> > as I said I appreciate you may get some variance, the amount of times
> > you get 30ms crop up is quite alarming atleast several per second.
>
> > So i'm still at a loss as to what to do, it's quite a limiting problem
> > because it is preventing me from having smooth animation, which is
> > kind of important in a game (or in most multimedia apps)
>
> A couple of general points:
> - Accurate timing on Windows is very hard - there is no single time function
> which works reliably across multiple PCs. QueryPerformanceCounter() skips
> around on multi-core systems (sometimes even with the thread affinity set),
> timeGetTime() has hardware-dependant resolution (often very poor) and
> typically defaults to 5 ms or more - timeBeginPeriod() may or may not
> help, again depending on the hardware.
>
> - VSync has always been slightly borked on windows (again, no fault of
> pyglet), possibly as a result of the timing issues. It isn't particularly
> good at yielding the CPU, or maintaining a constant frame time.
>
> --
> Tristam MacDonaldhttp://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"pyglet-users" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to