I'm using DirectInput, but I'm assuming this problems comes from the way Windows handles key presses. In Windows, if you hold down a key, there is a slight pause between the first key press and the repeated presses resulting from holding it down. In my game, I'm suffering from this problem. How do bypass this? I am using DirectInput, and I thought DirectInput would totally bypass the Windows Message Pump mechanism. Evidentally it doesn't. Seems like you'd have to use something totally different to retrieve keyboard input, such as SDL, which I don't really want to do... I've read something about this somewhere, but I can't come up with anything. I'm not exactly what keywords to use while searching also.

In all my Direct Inputting i have found that there is no gap.

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DirectInput does not go through windows. A key is either down or not, no pause.

Perhaps you should post your code? I have no idea why you'd get a pause other than a really crappy framerate.

Also SDL is a wrapper over the windows message pump(or at least it seems like it), so that definatly isn't going to solve your problems.

Great!

And strange.

That's what I thought, and I'm glad to hear it. I'll figure out what I'm doing wrong then. Thanks.

Mistaken use of GetMessage instead of PeekMessage.

damn things they call functions.