High CPU usage

[stlr]

Whenever I use Physac, the CPU goes up to 40% (and when i'm not calling InitPhysics() it goes back to normal). Any fix for this?

[Michael Aganier]

Whenever I use Physac, the CPU goes up to 40% (and when i'm not calling InitPhysics() it goes back to normal). Any fix for this?

Yes there is a fix.

By default, Physac uses a busy loop inside a thread to run the simulation. What this means is that it will peg a CPU core because it never sleeps, no matter how many physics bodies you have, including zero.

The fix is to run Physac manually from within your game loop:

#define PHYSAC_NO_THREADS
#include <physac.h>

int main() {
    InitPhysics();
    
    bool running = true;
    while (running) { // game loop
        RunPhysicsStep();
    }
}

[Víctor Fisac]

@aganm Calling RunPhysicsStep from the main thread may drive into unexpected physics behaviours because of a lack of accuracy in the different motion deltas.

@ethan-bmn I guess there's some issue related to how is managed the thread loop in some way... or it should sleep at some points...

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