Gamesalad slowdown ?

beaudoin_n

Hi,

Sorry guys for being so active in my postings with questions... i hope that soon i'll be able to give back to you guys by posting answers myself.

So my question.... are any of you experiencing some Gamesalad slowdown when developping if so when did you experience it ?
I find that anything i modify takes slowly longer and longer until i have no choice to just save quit and restart Gamesalad. The thing is the more i add on to the project the more frequent this needs to be done

Will i be able to finish my project ?
Maybe i am creating too big a monster, but i am hoping that what i am setting now will let me duplicate my levels easier.

Did any of you experience any of this ?
I know i am not on the best mac ever... but i am not willing to upgrade yet ..
I have a mac mini.. but now i am using the macbook 2.4Ghz 2G DDR3

Thanks all.. and thanks for your patience

jonmulcahy

it's a known issue, the app slows down after awhile. the bigger the game, the quicker it slows down.

right now just restart GameSalad every 15 or 20 minutes or so, or when it starts to get slow, that's what we all do.

iDeveloperz

How big is a big app?

jonmulcahy

my game has 213 actors, 215 images, 65 scenes and probably 150 attributes. A few of my actors have over 50 behaviors on them.

iDeveloperz

That is a big game how many mega bytes?

jonmulcahy

it's sitting at 22MB right now, my other game is around 14 I think.

iDeveloperz

Mine is only 3mb and GS crashed 40 times today.

jonmulcahy

my rule of thumb is to save often and quick and reopen the app every 15 minutes. it seems to get worst when using those back and forth buttons.

when you say it crashes, what happens? what are you doing when it crashes?

iDeveloperz

It just closes and a report opens up.

Sometimes it freezes then the beach-ball appears and then it closes by saying...

"GameSalad quit unexpectedly"

jonmulcahy

what are you doing when it crashes? trying to preview, opening an actor or scene, adding an attribute?

how long has it been running before it crashes?

what are your machine specs? OS / CPU / RAM?