Why is my game so glithy on Iphone 3G?!

expired_012

Ok so I was testing with my 3rd gen iPod touch when makin my game but then yesterday input my game into an iPhone 3G and it is extremely slow! When I touch play, for example, it takes like 5 secs just to make the clicking noise and then an addition 7 secs to go to te first level. By the second level everything moves so slowly and everything is so glitchy that I can't even play that level. On my iPod touch I have very smooth gameplay and the transitions between scenes lasts about 3-4 seconds sometimes maybe even 2

jonmulcahy

The iphone3g uses older hardware and a slower processor

How many moving actors on screen at once?

rebump

I'll be glad when the older gen devices start going by the wayside!

Then you won't have to worry about this cr@p as much.

Most stuff seems to work well on the 3GS and iPad.

expired_012

I have about 4-5 moving actors per scene

expired_012

Is there any way to fix this

rebump

Make sure images/sounds are all optimized. Make sure you code is direct. Strip out cr@p that isn't really necessary. That last one sucks.

JGary321

You can definitely get some good performance out of 3G. I created this my game Blighted Lands TD & it ran pretty decently over 3G. It has 10 Rule Heavy units moving across the screen along with spells going, sound sounding, & animations flashing. It's all in how you build it. You CAN have a lot going on, but it will require a lot of workarounds.

It doesn't really matter how many `moving` actors you have. Moving doesn't take a LOT of resources. It's all the other bloat that is probably slowing it down. Check the forums, there are ways to optimize it.