Game works differently on each computer

[raen79]

Hey guys, I made a game, and fortunately right after releasing the demo, I found out that the game works differently on each computer, do you guys know what the problem is? (it is not canvases, I mean the game's physics are different on each computer.
http://www.gamefront.com/files/22102835/PauZ_Source.zip

[LaserGuns]

you forgot to use delta time, probably. look it up

[Boolsheet]

Like LaserGuns said, you didn't take the variable update time into account for some things. Disable vsync and you can test it on your system.

For the jump, you set the vertical linear velocity of the body to -2000 every update. If the update happens every millisecond, the physics engine has less time to work the gravity on it than it would if it only happens every 16 milliseconds and the player will go higher.

A simple but somewhat ugly solution would be to accumulate the dt until it reaches the 16 ms and only execute the update stuff if it is equal or over 16 ms. Maybe you even need to to a fixed time step to make sure it's the same for everyone. I never tried platformer physics with Box2D and it's probably not going to work very well unless you know how to work Box2D for it.

Also, don't do this:

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function love.conf(t)
    t.identity = "'%appdata%\Love\'"
end

You're not supposed to give a path, but just a name which will be used for the directory. Like: t.identity = "PauZ".

[raen79]

Thank you very much