I am working on a First person shooter from scratch. The interface is the usual WASD and mouse look. The problem is when the user wants to move arround he/she has to hold the ''w'',''a'',''s'' or ''d'' key down. This results in the windows message queue getting bogged down and the whole game slowing. I know it can''t be anything else because the world updates smoothly when I am not holding a key down. Does any one know a way of squishing this bug?

use DirectInput?