Movement should never be dependent on framerate. Bob Nystrom wrote an excellent summary of how to write a game loop that is independent of framerate. Check it out [here][1]. He starts with the most basic game loop then makes incremental improvements, discussing the motivation behind each iteration. I've added his code here but you should really check the article out because you will learn a lot. double previous = getCurrentTime(); double lag = 0.0; while (true) { double current = getCurrentTime(); double elapsed = current - previous; previous = current; lag += elapsed; processInput(); while (lag >= MS_PER_UPDATE) { update(); lag -= MS_PER_UPDATE; } render(); } In order to benefit from higher framerates what you do is pass the lag to the render function which extrapolates the movement that has probably occurred between updates. This makes the motion smoother and allows better machines to benefit from a higher framerate while maintaining a fixed update rate. This is discussed in-depth in the same [game loop article][1] I linked to earlier. [1]: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/game-loop.html