Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] Timing on slower computers

[Joerg H. <jo...@lu...>]

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Good - since you have a patch: can you just commit it?

Cheers,
   Joerg

M Gagnon wrote:
> So I tried Joerg's suggestion
>> We could adjust the real time, just set dt=min(dt, 3*1/60) for three 
>> substeps.
>> game_manager.cpp,   after line 77:
> At first I had quite a bit of problems with it, it gave very weird 
> results. I then realised Joerg's formula was in seconds, and the game 
> expected milliseconds =)
> 
> so here's what it looks like now (yeah i got a little paranoid over 
> making sure everything was really float when debugging the issue, not 
> all of this might be needed)
> 
>             m_curr_time = SDL_GetTicks();
>            
>             dt = (float)(m_curr_time - m_prev_time);
>             dt = (float)std::min((float)dt, 
> (float)(3.0f*1.0f/60.0f*1000.0f));
> 
> I tested it and it works very well! I think it's the best way to go. We 
> can then keep the max internal steps to 3 or 4
> 
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