Ok so I have a game setup that allows the 8 to move around inside a small room. It works fine except that every keypress lags one "frame" behind. So whenever a key is pressed it does the last keypress that was given. How do I make it react immediately to a keypress? I'm using conio for the keyboard input.

while((ch=getch())!=27)
   {
    sirx = Sir->xC();
    siry = Sir->yC();
    world[sirx][siry]=2;
    system("cls");  
     a=0;
     b=0;
    if(ch==72)
     if(world[sirx][siry-1]==0)
      {
       Sir->Pmove(0);  
      }   
    if(ch==77)
     if(world[sirx+1][siry]==0)
      {
       Sir->Pmove(1);  
      } 
    if(ch==80)
     if(world[sirx][siry+1]==0)
      {
       Sir->Pmove(2);  
      }       
    if(ch==75)
     if(world[sirx-1][siry]==0)
      {
       Sir->Pmove(3);  
      }                               
    while(b<16)
     {
      while(a<16)
       {
        if(world[a][b]==1)
         cout<<"#";
        if(world[a][b]==0)
         cout<<" ";
        if(world[a][b]==2)
         cout<<"8";
        a++;
       }
     cout<<endl;
     a=0;
     b++;
    } 
     world[sirx][siry]=0;  
     cout<<sirx<<","<<siry;
    }
    return 0;
}

It doesn't sound like this has anything to do with your game. Maybe you can make a short, compilable example of this lagging effect in a very general context that someone can take a look at.

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