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Delta timeing can be a bit confusing. I don't know who wrote this, but its free in the IDEal IDE and really great. It has the advantage of only using the nessercery CPU power to maintain your FPS, so if you set it to something like 30FPS it will free up a lot of computer resurces and still maintain your game (and run it on the same speed on every computer)

Blitz3D but easily changeable.

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Graphics3D 640,480

Global Camera=CreateCamera ()

Const GameUPS=60 ; Updates per second
Local Period=1000/GameUPS 
Local FrameTime=MilliSecs()-Period

Local Tween#, Ticks,i,Remaining,StartTime,Elapsed

While Not KeyHit(1)
	
	StartTime = MilliSecs()
	
	Repeat
		Elapsed=MilliSecs()-FrameTime
	Until Elapsed
	
	Ticks=Elapsed / Period
	Tween=Float(Elapsed Mod Period)/Float(Period)
	
	For i=1 To Ticks
		FrameTime=FrameTime+Period
		If i=Ticks Then
			CaptureWorld
		End If
		UpdateGame()
		UpdateWorld
	Next
	RenderWorld Tween
	
	Remaining = Period - (MilliSecs() - StartTime)
	If Remaining > 1 Then 
		Delay (Remaining-1) ; Free some CPU time
	End If
	
	Flip
	
Wend

End

Function UpdateGame()
	; ...
End Function