lag spikes

[saiko-chriskun]

has anyone else experienced any lag spikes? about every second the time of one frame will jump slightly.. it's not that big a deal but it looks bad and was just wondering =/

[ghostwriter]

Are you accessing the hard drive at any point in your main loop? If you load a new image or sound you may experience a slight delay.

[saiko-chriskun]

no, it even happens when I load the FPS demo, which only prints the current value for dt.

[ghostwriter]

Hmm... you might have other applications running that are slowing things down. Do you notice this lag in other 3d applications? I had the same thing happen to me a couple years ago, it turned out to be due to the bandwidth monitor I had running in the background, because it was continuously updating its log files. I've noticed that some IRC clients can do this as well.

[adrix89]

Its a vsync problem
A way to fix this is to either set it to fullscreen(witch means you have to do some hacking for most games) or set vsync to false(which I don't recommend,besides most don't use dt)
Old thread:
http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2003

[TechnoCat]

most don't use dt

This isn't true.
My graphics drivers force v-sync off and I don't have a problem with most games.

[thitem]

Try set high priority for game application through the task manager.

[Xkeeper]

Try set high priority for game application through the task manager.

This is not only a really really bad idea, but it won't fix it, either.

It's a vsync issue. Just disable vsync and apply some common sense dt checks and you're good.

[bartbes]

How would vsync cause this?

[thitem]

I have this problem too. And high priority fix it.
Maybe lag spikes have a another reason.