Game lags

zNiiC

In my game, red balls spawn from the top right corner and move to the bottom left. After about 2 seconds of playing, everything gets really laggy, although there are only 15-20 balls on screen.

*After they go offscreen, they hit a wall and are destroyed*

How can I overcome this? Is there a better way to spawn them?

SAZ_1

do they spawn at the same time?? ... whats the size of the balls? anything else on the scene other then the ball and the wall that destroys them?

zNiiC

One spawns every 1.5 seconds while the other one spawns every 1.8 seconds. I made the balls 5x5 in photoshop along with GameSalad. The only other thing is a joystick and another ball you control with the joystick.

zNiiC

It even lags with about 5 actors in the scene.

UtopianGames

Sounds like the balls all have movable on have you tried to use interpolate and unchecking movable although it shouldn't lag tbh.

Try using interpolate 0,0 change the time to whatever suits.

Darren.

scitunes

laggy in the preview, viewer, adhoc, all...???

If it is just in the gs creator preview and you have music in your game then it is just a creator bug and will not affect your final build at all.

zNiiC

I have I music, but I will try to uncheck moveable.

zNiiC

I have no music*

zNiiC

I found out that every 0.1 seconds it would randomly spawn an actor, so that would cause it to lag. Although it fixed it, it still lags occasionally for about .5 seconds.

App Surge

The best way to test for lag/glitch issues is to create an Ad Hoc. Try doing that and see if it still lags.

slinky1988

Maybe because you are spawning and destroying the actors? It might be better if you had the actors on the scene and made them recycle instead. And interpolate when you can!