Lag issues

[EdibleWare]

I would like a list for what is possible causing me to lag :/

I was thinking, can I have like 100 lines of "Start frames" and "Always", I should sotp beying lazy and add all the comands to one start and one always, or that wouldnt change anything at all?

[Jeff]

Optimizing your code is always good when you go and try to debug your game.

[Francois]

Always does not take much time. It is better to have everything on one line, but this should not have too much of an impact on speed.

[Jacob]

It is better to leave them separate until you are ready to release the final version, not due to speed, but mental stress when debugging. Also remember you can CTRL+Drag the action over and they are appended to the action list as opposed to replacing them.

EDIT: The big cause of lag is fastloops. Make sure all of your fastloops are in deactivated groups (a different group for each fastloop) that you activate immediately before running a loop and deactivate when the loop is over. This avoids the issue of MMF2 looking at every on loop event each loop, because it won't look in deactivated groups.

[Spike]

Look at the amount of objects on screen, and the size of images.

I also find that certain collision events combined with other interactive events can cause problems.

In our paint my world game, we have a seperate paint block, to a collision block.

If the player can collide with and paint the same block, it lags up in flash really badly with just a dozen objects. Otherwise we can get away with 100+.

The game also runs with very limited fast loops because they lag badly, and we are at 500-600 lines of event code I think?

Currently with the tweaks and been careful, the game runs very smooth.

I would also recommend not duplicating un-needed events :P Start of frame / always can be one line. Except maybe in specific groups that are activated.

Also semi-transparancy and other effects can cause a HUGE performance drop in my experience.

It's difficult to give advice to help you speed up your application when I have no idea what it is

[Spike]

Scrap the 500-600 it's more around 800-900 events