oh, my apologies. Other than wrongly assuming meaning based on your naming conventions, I don't see what's inherently wrong with your timing. Unless you're playing with the value of your delta in your update method or are somehow doing weird extrapolation in your render method, I honestly am not sure why that bug is happening for you.

if you want the speed to be constant, than you shouldn't be multiplying it's value like that. Regardless of how much time goes by, the speed shouldn't change in your case. The position does. Which brings me to my next point, that speed*time = distance, not speed again. so if you replace the speed there with your position variable like so,


you would get your proper position even if your delta fluctuates from lag.

I typed in java game loop and this site came up on the last entry of the first page

so it's still there, just that google has given this site a lower priority I guess

thanks everyone for explaining this for me. I appreciate it as I try to get better.

I guess I'm kinda new to programming to be asking this but wouldn't a class which has no methods and only data fields be the same functionality-wise as a struct? or am I missing something that java does with classes that just isn't what you want from a struct