Tips for improving performance?

PPenguinPPenguin Member, PRO Posts: 110
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hey all, I was wondering if any of you have any good tips for improving performance in our GS games for iphone and ipad.

Currently it seems like most of my games struggle a bit with some noticeable slowdown, and aside from reducing the number of actors in a scene or reducing the number of behaviors in each actor, I was wondering if you guys have any tweaks you came up with to help improve performance in your games?

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  • rebumprebump Member Posts: 1,058
    Do a forum search. I know there are three or four posts on this with many good responses (although, they are mostly what to avoid as opposed to tweak...so you question still holds a spot for responses ;-) ).
  • chosenonestudioschosenonestudios Member Posts: 1,714
    What some people have noticed including myself..... Is if you have more stuff broken up between scenes it takes longer to load.... Doesn't make sense, but it does.... So on my other game theres 2 scenes and it took the same amount of time to load initially as it did with 5..

    so my new game will just have 1 scene and it will only need to load once during the whole game (the beginning)

    hope this helps good luck! :)
  • PPenguinPPenguin Member, PRO Posts: 110
    loading times aren't really a problem for me.. The thing i'm concerned about is the actual in-game performance during scenes... Maybe I just have too much stuff going on in my games.. :/
  • chosenonestudioschosenonestudios Member Posts: 1,714
    Sorry I just read your title and assumed you were talking about loading times....

    Spawns, timers, lots of actors, and constrains all hit performance really hard... So you want to use as few of these as possible. eg instead of using 5 different actors to spawn 5 other actors use 1 actor to spawn 5 other actors...
  • JamesZeppelinJamesZeppelin Member Posts: 1,927
    Audio is a biggie and often overlooked.

    Reduce quality with a program like audacity all the way down to 2 or 3. Higher settings are a waste and above 7 on most program isn't even audible.

    Also remember a stereo file is just two mono files. So if you don't need stereo effects or music no need to double up on size.

    Trimming your audio down can cut load times in half or even more.
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