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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 239123" data-attributes="member: 3745">It does, though the constraint isn't exactly cycles.  The constraint is getting the emulation to run at the right speed in real time.  Farsight has said that that's a significant difficulty across so many platforms, and that they've had to lock TPA at 60 fps everywhere to keep the physics and rendering corrently synchronized with the emulation.So if SPA runs native code using each platform's native timing mechanisms rather than emulation, then yes that does separate the concerns so that the physics and rendering could run on their own schedule.  That's how it works in any modern shooter or whatever with a real game engine.  How much of that Farsight can and will implement remains to be seen.  Again, I think this would require Stern demanding high quality, as Farsight by themselves would most likely take the path of least resistance and just keep doing what TPA has always been doing.</blockquote>

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