Hi guys,

I just noticed that my game is jerky when Vsync is off. Everything is silky smooth when it's on. I really don't know where to start.

Here is my loop:

while(msg.message != WM_QUIT){
if(PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE)){
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);
}
else{
QueryPerformanceCounter((LARGE_INTEGER*)&cur_time);
time_span=(cur_time-last_time)*time_factor;
last_time=cur_time;
game->heartbeat(timespan);
}

My objects are timespan based like so:

position.x+=velocity.x*timespan;
position.y+=velocity.y*timespan;

What do you think it could be ?

I'm using Win 8 Pro if that matters.

Please help, thanks.

Vsync has probably capped you to ~60 frames per second, turning it off who knows but its no longer as consistant.
I would probably change my object's so they move independantly of the time between frames.

edit: After reading Erik's reply, could you describe the jerkiness more?

You can't get perfect smoothness without vsync, that's what it's for. Your screen only updates at a certain rate (usually 60 Hz), so if your game updates at 120 FPS, you will actually have updated 2 frames between each frame you see on screen.
This is further complicated by the fact that the screen doesn't update instantaneously, so if you update too fast then the top half of the screen might display the image from one frame, while the bottom half of the screen displays the image from the next frame, which leads to tearing (you see a horizontal line where your image is offset).
In addition to that, and what probably makes your game feel jerky, is that you will rarely update at an exact multiple of the screen refresh rate, so if you update 2.5 times faster than your monitor, then between the frames you actually see you will sometimes have moved 2 frames and sometimes 3 frames.