I found something rather interesting running my program on several different computers. It slowed down a lot on some of them (2 Ghz or less). I checked the task manager and it took 98% (!) of the CPU! It also took up 98% fullscreen mode on a 2.26 Ghz machine, 5-15% windowed. To contrast this I looked at NeHe's tutorial 19's CPU useage... about 3-5% on the same 2.26 Ghz machine. Granted, there are probably settings I don't know about that could account for the difference in my program on computers with only slightly different hardware, but that doesn't account for the significantly poorer performance versus the NeHe code. The only significant program difference I could think of to cause this is that I'm using the glut window code while the NeHe program builds up its own Windows 32-bit window. Does the window code really matter that much? And what exactly accounts for this difference between the code, the glutmainloop or what?

yeah, sleep() will solve your problem...i use it also in my SDL+OpenGL apps so my app won't be a CPU hog...:)

yeah, sleep() will solve your problem...i use it also in my SDL+OpenGL apps so my app won't be a CPU hog...:)