ocean torrent
Hey y'all, I'm currently working on a school project (make a snake game, wow much exciting) and am stuck with some issue concerning the timer not counting the correct timestep. For example, perform an action every 1/10 second - it fails to do that.
I've asked my professor for help and he's currently unable to find the culprit after looking through my code, so thought I'd ask here.
I've checked CPU and memory utilization and afaik there's no issues. No memory leaks, no hardware issues etc.
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Happy to send code privately if anyone wants to help 
Might also be useful to know that it works as intended using values above 500 ms,
so using 500 ms, 1000 ms (1 action every 1 second) works perfectly fine, but going lower (such as 10, 100, or 200) than that seems to break it
summer mural
Might also be useful to know that it works as intended using values above 500 ms...
I guess that's because the method run itself consumes some time (for calculating collisions, drawing etc). And it seems that it counts wrong, doesn't perform designed count of frames. But as you increase the time gaps, it seems that nothing wrong. That's my guess
I would recommend you to take a look at another types of game loops
like, calculating time between frames and make the thread sleep needed time for the next frame
ocean torrent
I got it fixed, no worries, turns out I drawing a grid of 800x800 every 1/10 second instead of what only covered screen