Possible way to speed up GameSalad 0.13.7? (Please try it and feed back!)

Armelline

I've been trying various ways to speed up GameSalad 0.13.7 running on Yosemite. I've found one thing that seems to have helped - I've not had a spinning beachball for more than 5 seconds since trying it. I certainly won't be a permanent solution and will probably need repeating regularly, but it may save a few restarts. Please give it a try and let me know if it helps you! It may be something of a cargo cult effect rather than a real improvement, and it doesn't fix the problem entirely, but it definitely seems to have helped me.

1. Go to Finder
2. Open the Go menu item
3. Click and hold ALT
4. Select the Library menu item
5. Navigate to the Caches folder
6. Find the folder called com.gendaigames.GameSalad
7. Delete it

Alternatively, open Terminal and paste in the following command:

rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.gendaigames.GameSalad

(If you don't know how to use Terminal, you probably should stick to the steps above.)

Let me know if this helps. I can't be 100% sure it wasn't something else I tried!

zweg25

I'll try but are there any.. side effects?

Armelline

@zweg25 said:
I'll try but are there any.. side effects?

Shouldn't be. But I don't really know what GameSalad keeps in its cache, so someone like @BlackCloakGS will have to confirm if it's likely to do bad things. As a rule of thumb, though, deleting a cache shouldn't have any negative side effects.

zweg25

Only improve speed on yosemite? Or would it work for mavericks?

Armelline

@zweg25 said:
Only improve speed on yosemite? Or would it work for mavericks?

I would imagine it would work on both if it works at all, but I can't test it on Mavericks so I can't comment on that

tatiang

rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.gendaigames.GameSalad

It does seem quite a bit faster in Mavericks. Thanks for the tip!

nottiffanylee

Yay! I can use GameSalad again! This works for Mavericks.

supafly129

Any confirmation that this won't ruin anything @BlackCloakGS ?

jigglybean

I will give this a try today. Awesome effort. Because right now, I can hardly use it due to the freezing problems.

BBEnk

I'm diffidently seeing a difference on Maverick so far.

jigglybean

VAST improvement. I've chopped and changed scenes several times and not ran into any issues. Using Yosemite

jamie_c

Going to have to try this. I was working late last night and no kidding, Gamesalad was so slow I was literally dozing off after hitting the back button and needed to wait FOREVER to return to the previous screen... maybe I was just really, really tired though too! LOL

BBEnk

Been running Gamesalad since I posted above at 5:35 and it's still running along pretty good every once in while it slow down on a change scene/actor but not like before after just 5 minutes.

Thanks for the Tip.

Armelline

Glad it's helping some people! Definitely still making a difference for me!

Thunder_Child

Wow I can't wait to try this tonight. Thanks a ton! I'll let you know how it goes.

@Armelline works late into the night for us...
I imagine this is what he does...

Armelline

@Thunder_Child said:
@Armelline works late into the night for us...
I imagine this is what he does...

Close! I'm a creature of the night at heart! I don't have that many monitors, though

floatingwoo

You guys got me afraid to upgrade....my system still looks like this...

ForumNinja

I asked @BlackCloakGS and, though he hasn't had time to look into it and make sure yet, theoretically there shouldn't be any long lasting effects and you guys should be fine

@floatingwoo Looks like you're probably still dealing with the other kind of "bugs"

robertkdale

Thanks @Armelline ! It works perfectly on my Mac Book Pro!

robertkdale

I am now able to run GS longer on my newer Mac Book Pro with out closing GS after only a few minutes. Theres still some lag. However the preformance is much, much better.

Thunder_Child

@robertkdale said:
Thanks Armelline ! It works perfectly on my Mac Book Pro!

Awesome that's what I'm using.

Braydon_SFX

Is there a legendary badge? Cause this man needs one.

This is a life saver! Literally! With this trick, I save two hours of waiting for GS to load. That means I have 2 hours for things more important....like napping or something. The possibilities are endless!

Thanks!

jay2dx

yeeeahhhhh

AJaymz

Found something for @Armelline

KillerPenguinStudios

Just looked and I don't have that folder @Armelline

Armelline

Are you definitely looking in the Library folder in your user folder, not the system library folder?

tatiang

@KillerPenguinStudios Paste this into Terminal and press return:

ls ~/Library/Caches/ | grep com.gendaigames.GameSalad

It will list any directories that match that name. Post the results here.

BBEnk

If your under your Home folder and you can't see library folder click settings at the top of finder window and it will have a option to show that folder just check it off. it's sometimes hidden by default.

Franto

Does it run better on Yosemite or Mavericks?

Armelline

@Franto said:
Does it run better on Yosemite or Mavericks?

Generally speaking GameSalad has run better of Mavericks, and is likely to do so until the new version with ARC, so it's very likely you'll get the better experience using Mavericks.

Franto

@Armelline I see, thanks. Was there any advantage to using Yosemite before the problems?