Reduce Lag on my project

SEMA

I am working on a game that requires levels to have a lot of objects(actors). Most of the objects have attributes inside that detect distance between the player and object to make an appear and disappear animation. The scene is long 20000+. My game starts to lag when a huge amount of objects appear and I notice the music on the game has a delay. Need help to reduce lag in game

tatiang

It doesn't sound like you're necessarily doing anything wrong. Having a lot of actors doing calculations (and possibly using constraints) in a large scene with music is going to produce lag.

Socks

@tatiang said:
It doesn't sound like you're necessarily doing anything wrong. Having a lot of actors doing calculations (and possibly using constraints) in a large scene with music is going to produce lag.

Music shouldn't produce lag as it's streamed by dedicated hardware on the device, rather than being handled by the processor and/or loaded into RAM ?

tatiang

Good point, @Socks. I guess I wasn't sure if it was music or sounds.

SEMA

Is there any possible solution or any tips to reduce lag?

MelodyCats

My last project had quite a few performance issues and I had to do quite a bit of optimisation.

• look for any actors that no longer need to be there and destroy them. For example I had a couple that were needed right at the start of the scene but after that I could get rid of them - so for example when game.time >1 -- destroy.
• try to have least amount of actors off scene doing nothing. only spawn them when necessary. Should add that probably best to avoid spawning or destroying lots of actors simultaneously. If possible try to stagger the actions to avoid frame drops.
• biggest improvement was making sure I didn't have any unnecessary extra rules.
  not sure how to best explain so attaching an example of actor with 2 rules that could be combined.

Icebox

Did you test on ios or android ? how many devices did you test on ? are they old or new ?

SEMA

@Icebox I haven't test it on any device, I test them on the gamesalad preview. @MusicBoutique I will try to remove any unnecessary rules.
Thank you

AlchimiaStudios

Gamesalad preview is not indicative of device performance.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

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