Surprising framerates

ck

I have an iPad project that I thought was pretty well optimized. Just loaded it up in the 8.8 iPad viewer, and my framerates are low low low.

At first they were 9 fps. I went in and deleted some background images that were moving.

Now the framerate's up to 16-20.

The file has:

26 variables
92 actors
Project size is 1.5 MB.

Rather stuck. It's an imposition, but does anyone care to have a look?

TouchTiltGames

Hmm my game is bigger and not even done yet...I'm getting 60fps. Is there 92 actors on screen at once?

ck

No. Doing a quick count (from the scene in question), I have 37 actors on the stage, but only three are moving. Twelve are waiting for collisions (and each spawns three actors for about two seconds when there's a collision).

http://www.kriel.tv/framerateScreenShot.jpg

To explain:

1) The gargoyles are waiting for collision from the bullet.

2) On collision, they play a sound, add to score, spawn the flies, and spawn a quick score graphic

3) The bird rotates to where you click on the screen

4) There's an actor waiting offstage that acts as a menu

5) none of the images are over about 16k, except the background gradient (which won't work in the end, I know - working on replacing that)

AfterBurnett

Wow, that looks cool! I'd go with custom fonts, though

ck

Thanks Poly. It has custom fonts. Those white numbers are just counters to help me keep track of variables.

JCFord

Sounds like there is an issue somewhere as you should be getting a much larger frame rate than that.
Just delete a few things out at a time and see what's causing the slow down.

AppChogie

I'm getting 60 fps on Fred

ck

OK, this is really odd.

The original framerate was 20fps.

I deleted the background gradient, which was a png. The framerate went up to 30fps.

I then replaced it with a jpg. The framerate went down to 16fps.

The background in both cases was 1024x768, 72 dpi. Can it really be that expensive?

ck

Apologies for the bump

jonmulcahy

try getting rid of your custom fonts and see what happens. I remember reading how that could cause huge slowdowns.