# Choppy/Jittery fast motion - hardware or code?

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/choppy-jittery-fast-motion-hardware-or-code/12448>\
**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [July 2, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/choppy-jittery-fast-motion-hardware-or-code/12448 "2019-07-02T14:34:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/choppy-jittery-fast-motion-hardware-or-code/12448/7 "2019-07-04T01:18:05Z")

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You are not paranoid! Just mindful.

Sharing:

> [@FrameRate hiccups](https://discourse.processing.org/t/framerate-hiccups/11947/8):
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> I threw together some code to visualize the hiccups; they are within the first 15 seconds (repeatable) and after that it is a rock solid 59 to 60 fps (green). The bottom row is first 15 seconds (up to vertical line) and then it keeps plotting framerate and moves up a row at a time: The glitch on top row is when I used “Snipping Tool”. I went through many of my apps to see what cause hiccups (frame rate drops) and was very surprised! Some had no impact and others significant. I’ll …

I have jitters at the startup of all my sketches as per my “FrameRate hiccups topic” including yours.

I tried your sketch with P2D and have the same jitters at start and then it seems fine with the occasional jitters.

You may want to explore your NVIDIA card settings:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/a/ad2c88cea5d8d07607912846f0d0194c3f739025.png)  
I made some interesting observations investigating these and will share later.

Windows 10 has Graphics settings:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/7/70ac211c7f9d9415d47984198ae5894f5732a02a.png)  
I set these but have not tested.

🙂

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