Using main loop program similar (or equal) to standard NeHe SDK loop seems to cause serious overusage of CPU. According to Windows monitoring the program, even if it was just a normal Tetris - eats all the CPU power it can get. Normally I wouldn't bother, but with faster CPUs of today this results serious heat build-up. I tried to do some sort of hack to limit the programs CPU usage through capping the FPS: // get tick counts for timing and cap the FPS tp 60 while (currentTickCount-lastTickCount < 16) { currentTickCount = GetTickCount (); } ...but it naturally didn't help, as now the CPU doesn't do the program but the loop, still wasting CPU resources. Does anyone know a solid solution to do this properly??

Ofcourse, naturally! Thanks!

bad bad while(1) loops

if you are capping the fps inside your main loop with:
while (currentTickCount-lastTickCount <

mmm post didnt show up correctly ... change the while with an if and thats all. also there are better methods to cap the fps