If Event Tick fires every frame, why isn't a 60FPS timer fast enough?

[GarnerP57]

@TorQueMoD

I think you meant to say “Stop Ticking Actors from ticking BY adding a bool”

No there is a function called SetActorTickEnabled you should use.

@TorQueMoD

As I said in my example, if my game is capped at 60FPS, then my Event Tick is only going to update 60 times in 1 second. Mathematically, you would assume that setting my Timer to loop at 1/60 (0.0166) would give the same result, but it doesn’t. THAT is what I’m trying to understand.

The frame-time is not constant even if the timer is set to be called at a constant rate. Similar to how physics are calculated it might be called several times in one frame if tick is slower than the timer interval.
Things that are rendered should use Tick and compensate for the tick variance using delta-time in the calculations.