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Android game loop's effect on cpu/battery usage - unexpected results

I will try to keep this question as concise and as readable as I can. I recently came across an odd problem with my Android game that I'm developing. It's an openGL ES 2.0 game and initially I was ...
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Android OpenGL ES 2.0 gameloop problems

I implemented a gameloop found here: http://www.koonsolo.com/news/dewitters-gameloop/ into my OpenGL ES 2.0 Android game. The tutorial was written with the canvas API in mind, not OpenGL so I made a ...
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Why are my game ticks longer than expected?

I was working on my game, adding stuff to it, when I noticed my ticks were in the low 50's when I had set it to do a constant 60. This is my run method. public void run() { init(); long ...
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How do I calculate consistent frame timings at 60fps?

I'm writing an HTML canvas game that uses requestAnimationFrame and therefore runs at 60fps, although this is more of a question about failing arithmetic than about JavaScript. If I measure the time ...
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Why is the framerate (fps) capped at 60?

ISSUE I recently moved a project from my laptop to my desktop(machine info below). On my laptop the exact same code displays the fps(and ms/f) correctly. On my desktop it does not. What I mean by ...
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Android, how important is deltaTime?

Im making a game that is getting pretty big and sometimes my thread has to skip a frame, so far I'm not using deltaTime for setting the speed of my different objects in the game because it's still not ...
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My rhythm game runs choppy even with high frame rate

EDIT: [SOLUTION] I posted a possibly explanation for my issue below to anyone who has a similar problem. Hope it helps. I'm coding a rhythm game and the game runs smoothly with uncapped fps. But when ...
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Framerate control and physics engines?

I am reading this article on how to control the framerate and physics calculations. But in the game I am writing, I use a third party physics library and the only thing I do to update my physics is ...
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Game Loop Problem - Growth and Recharge as Integer Values

I have a question about game loops. I understand that you shouldn't have a static loop, say 100ms and set something's speed to 1px/frame so it moves 10px/sec. You should have a speed and multiple that ...
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What are “frame rate” and “fps?”

Can someone give me a detailed explanation about frame rate and fps concepts?
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Options available to a programmer on the Main Game Loop [closed]

Could someone please give me some insight into each one of the four topics listed below. I have a good idea about what passive and active rendering are, and that the use of active rendering is more ...
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Constant game speed independent of variable FPS in OpenGL with GLUT?

I've been reading Koen Witters detailed article about different game loop solutions but I'm having some problems implementing the last one with GLUT, which is the recommended one. After reading a ...