1. A method comprising: displaying a frame of an interactive application via a display device of a computing device, the displayed frame depicting a scene and including a previously-rendered version of a scene object, and the scene object corresponding to visual scenery depicted in the scene; performing, by the computing device, visual processing to update one or more visual aspects of the scene object during the displaying of the displayed frame, the visual processing enabling display of the scene object with the updated visual aspects in a subsequent frame and without affecting the scene object as displayed in the displayed frame; updating an interactive object that is included as part of the frame, the interactive object corresponding to an object in the scene that is directly controllable responsive to a received input to the computing device, the updated interactive object being displayed on the display device in at least one subsequent frame that is displayed before the subsequent frame having the scene object with the updated visual aspects; and applying the visual processing performed during the displaying of the displayed frame to display the one or more visual aspects of the scene object in the subsequent frame of the interactive application.