Slow Down?

[Corlen]

Is it normal for a game to lose FPS purely because code is added to it? How do I circumvent this problem? I'm at 3585 lines of code and my game is losing 10FPS just because the code exists.

Also, why do my games randomly run very slow in FPS? Randomly when I run them they lose like 20 FPS until I restart the application.

[Corlen]

I sort of put a band aid on the first problem by disabling groups for enemies and powers that aren't being used but if all the enemies were to appear all at once (which is possible if a user does this with the editor) then the problem will be present once again.

[ProdigyX]

Do you have anything constantly running in the background?

[Corlen]

Well I have like 66 lines of code or more per 26 enemies and most of their lines of code have a condition if they're more than 32 pixels away from the screen to not perform the actions associated with the lines of code.

[ProdigyX]

Could it be a computer specific issue? (could it be just your computer?)

[Corlen]

My computer has a quad core and 8GB of RAM, although it has a mediocre video card, but runs programs more strenuous than MMF2 just fine.

I found the issue is in my controls themselves for some reason. I'm working on it to see what's the matter.

[nivram]

Also...cores don't mean anything when it comes to MMF. Only one core runs at a time.

Marv

[Corlen]

OK the problem was I didn't know having the control X call keys being pressed from an INI file would noticeably cause applications to slow down. From now on I'll store my controls in global variables and call them from there.

[nivram]

Thanks for letting us know the solution. I'm sure others will have a similar problem some time.

Marv

[Corlen]

Yeah no problem. I'm also sure others will have the same problem some other time because it seems like that method is so innocent but when your controls get semi-complex and you do that method the slow down is massively noticeable and mostly when the frame scrolls which makes it seem unrelated to the controls.