Pong and Breakout weird jerk moves.

alexmbr · May 26th, 2007, 04:25 AM

I finished now the chapter 2, and after trying the breakout game, I notice that the ball and paddle sometimes make some weird jerk moves. And that was also happening with the Pong game.
Why this is happening?

Zulbaric · May 29th, 2007, 08:09 AM

Maybe youve got a slow PC??

abi.exdream.com · May 29th, 2007, 03:44 PM

The framerate might be too high or too low. You can fix it by setting a fixed framerate in the Initialize method, maybe that helps. The first couple of games were developed really rapidly, the later games should work better.

http://abi.exdream.com

alexmbr · May 30th, 2007, 07:23 PM

Zulbaric, my machine is not a slow one.

abi.exdream.com, I just tried the xna shooter and racer and I still see the same problem, but with so much intensity as the pong and breakout games.

glenncottrell · June 14th, 2007, 07:14 AM

I too noticed this occasional jerking of game movement and tracked it down to spikes in the elapsed time.

moveFactorPerSecondTotal: 0.008294599 : 16.5892
moveFactorPerSecond: 0.008 : 16
moveFactorPerSecondTotal: 0.0078088 : 15.6176
moveFactorPerSecond: 0.008 : 16
moveFactorPerSecondTotal: 0.0167239 : 33.4478 <-
moveFactorPerSecond: 0.008 : 16
moveFactorPerSecondTotal: 0.0167239 : 33.4478 <-
moveFactorPerSecond: 0.008 : 16
moveFactorPerSecondTotal: 0.00822645 : 16.4529
moveFactorPerSecond: 0.008 : 16
moveFactorPerSecondTotal: 0.00827825 : 16.5565
moveFactorPerSecond: 0.008 : 16

So from this I simply changed the following

Code:

//float moveFactorPerSecond = 0.5f * (float)gameTime.ElapsedRealTime.TotalMilliseconds / 1000.0f;
float moveFactorPerSecond = 0.5f * (float)gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.Milliseconds / 1000.0f;

alexmbr · June 15th, 2007, 05:42 PM

That didn't help.

TomPinnock · June 26th, 2007, 07:42 AM

Has anyone else had this problem and managed to fix it?
Like the original poster, all the projects move quite jerkily.
I've not got a slow computer.
I tried Glenns idea - Better, but still jerks.

Maybe the framerate's the way to go, but I'd like a way of setting that up per PC configuration? Otherwise it would look great on my pc, but rubbish on others.

Other than this, everything's working brilliantly, and can't wait to knock up my own game with the engine!

Cheers,
Tom.

emor · June 26th, 2007, 11:05 AM

Tom,

a bit of a spill over from my other post on blank screens but I am curious... when you say "other than that everything is working brilliantly" are you including the XBox 360 too? Because I agree everything is working very well on Windows (I see the issue with some jerkiness too, notwithstanding) but on the XBox I can't get the games to work for the reasons explained in my other post...

thanks for your comments.

TomPinnock · June 26th, 2007, 11:57 AM

Ah... no.
Afraid I don't own a 360 yet. I was planning on seeing how far I got with my game before splashing out on that.
I was hoping Ben would have had some time to look at this problem.
Ah well, maybe I'll actually look at it myself instead!

Tom.

llonden · June 26th, 2007, 01:42 PM

I too am having the same problem, and the suggestion I get the most is to check the game's framerate. Any clue on how to do that???