I'm creating a simple game using GDI+ in C#.
First of all I need a game loop, and a render loop. I've decided to break these in to two seperate threads. It seems to work, and runs extremely fast, but the reason I'm asking here is because I see people use timers for their game loops to make them run at a specific frame rate.
This obviously has the advantage, that you can be sure of the speed in which actors move. But my game loops just runs as fast as possible, like the Update function in Unity3D. Now to make sure that actors always move at the same speed, all I have to do is to multiply the move speed by the frame delta time (the time between each frame).
My render loop also runs as fast as possible. Is this a good game loop, why or why not?
// Constructor
public FormDisplay()
{
// Create a thread object, passing in the GameLoop method
var gameThread = new Thread(this.GameLoop);
// Start the game thread
gameThread.Start();
// Create a thread object, passing in the GameLoop method
var renderThread = new Thread(this.RenderLoop);
// Start the render thread
renderThread.Start();
}
private void GameLoop()
{
while (true)
{
// TODO: Insert Game Logic
}
}
private void RenderLoop()
{
while (true)
{
// TODO: Insert Render Logic
}
}
