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I just tried running some tests on the Lumia 550 Windows Phone.
This phone is not powerful enough to give good performance on UWP projects.
Next I will try the Lumia 640 when that phone arrives I will post about the results.
I plan to work up the MS phone models till I figure out the minimum spec phone that will run my Chicken Wings game.
If you have performance reports from a phone please post up the info.
Will this also work for Windows Phone that still have Windows 8.1 on it? or Only when updated to windows 10?
Didn't have time yet to export something to try it out, have some re-installing to do XD
Perry: I am pretty sure UWP apps can run on most Windows 10 devices, but not on any non-windows 10 devices.
ok, I'll ask my colleague to update his phone lol.
I'm going to look for a Windows 10 phone..
i see : http://www.bestbuy.com/site/t-mobile...&skuId=7484013
seems you can upgrade to windows 10
Perry I would bet that phone is not powerful enough as the one I sent back in the first post was more powerful.
aah, Got my eye on a 650,850 or 950 now.
I hope the 640 I ordered is powerful enough -- it was $200
If not --- I guess I would need one of the $500 models to get enough juice on it to run things acceptably.
Also Check your local wal-mart -- I see Xbox One for $239 at mine -- Blowing out for a new model maybe but for "testing" this would save people money.
I have an Xbox one, so that's not a problem. 640 should be good, and is powerful. What i don't know if it's powerful enough for the exporter.
I am just looking for a Pre Paid phone. prob. just going to order from e-bay.
For some reason, I can't seem to find any Windows phones at Wal-mart
Hi guys I am also looking to buy a cheap phone for testing was the 640 powerful enough or should I be looking for a higher model?
Both low end phones I ordered didn't run that well
Maybe you could build a simple app.
I would bet the higher end phones would run good but I don't need a $500 Windows phone.
Ok thanks for the response think i'll try ebay or try to source a 950 cheap.
I've tried on my Lumia 650, and it was terribly slow, even in a really simple app with only one object.
Hmm, you should retry with the latest beta version (287.3) and the W10 Anniversary update, I tested your scrolling game on a Lumia 650 and the speed is pretty good when you run the application from the menu on this device (or when you use Start without debugging in VS - but better run it directly in the app menu on the device after you've built it and deployed it). If you use Start Debugging in VS yes it's terribly slow, not sure what they do exactly in the debugger.
PS: something that is a bit slow is the loading time between frames, we'll try to optimize this.
Can we make a conclusion that Fusion is not good at all for Windows Phone games?
Nope. I've tested a couple of games with the latest version of Fusion on a Lumia 650 that has the latest version of Windows and they worked fine at a normal speed.
I'll make other tests if I can find more "stressing" games to test. If anyone has a game designed for mobile he wants me to test I can see how it performs.
Hey, could you check again on your Lumia with the latest version please? It runs fine on mine. Run it from the device, not from VS. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dobermann
It's better but still not as it should be, the menu is at 20FPS and the game at 30FPS... I've added a rain effect on the menu (around 420 object at screen), maybe it explain the slowdown.
It was way better with the XNA exporter but i hope it wil lbe improved again!
I just tested a bit with a Lumia 650, and I'm gonna have to agree that it's not very suitable for development. It took a while to even get running, and it's incredibly slow. And this is a game that runs fine on really old android pads and generation 2 ipads.
Did you run it by clicking on the app icon in the app list on the device or through Visual Studio?
Both. While running through Visual Studio it crashes before the main menu can even be loaded (memory issues). I did get it to run by disabling all backgrounds (I have several 960x1280 images as active objects in a frame) and running it after deployment (in the app list). Framerate wasn't good, but playable enough actually, my main issue is the phones inability to load large files (mp3's with a 2.73mb filesize doesn't seem to be able to play either, while smaller ones do).
I'm running build 287.3, Visual Studio with update 3, and Win 10 with the anniversary update.