Soft-follow camera: weird jitter/flicker/teleportation of the player

[MrGg570]

Seems like @Thaumaturge’s suggestion from this thread does the trick. With V-Sync off, the game stops sending dt spike alerts and the players moves smoothly.

Dt between frames is not stable

I’m wondering whether it might not be related to the game being V-Synced. Perhaps the game itself completes an update in much less than the 0.0166s required from 60fps–but every so often something causes a momentary slowdown. This results in an unusually-long update, one that ends up finishing just before the next screen-refresh. But because the game’s updates complete quickly, that’s enough time for an update to finish, and thus the long update is followed by a very short update, before a retur…