The process of modifying software to make some part of it work more efficiently or use fewer resources. Generally, this means it executes more rapidly, or will require fewer resources.
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Displaying possible movement tiles
What's the fastest way to highlight all possible movement tiles for a player on a square grid? Players can only move up, down, left, right. Tiles can cost more than one movement, multiple levels are ...
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Are there methods faster than Strings for sending a sprite's state over UDP?
I'm programming a 2.5D networked game in Java. The networking works like this right now:
Create new networked sprite object at the client. Send it to the server. Server distributes and saves it. ...
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In DirectX 11, batching primitives for performance, how does this actually work?
I don't seem to be able to understand this. Microsoft says that one of the possible optimizations of for a Direct3D 11 if to batch primitives draw calls. For example in order to draw say 300 triangles ...
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How to optimise mesh data
So i have some procedurally generated mesh data and i want to reduce it down to its minimum number of verts. In case it matters this is a unity project.
Working on the basis of a simple example, ...
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Javascript board game: looking for optimization
I posted this question on stackoverflow before but received no answers so I decided to post it here and see if someone could suggest me something.
I'm working on a html/javascript game for android. ...
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Optimising out tiles outside of viewport
I am playing around with the HTML5 canvas and have begun implementing a tile engine.
However, it's currently very inefficient: I have a 100x100 2D array and my code loops through the whole thing ...
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How to get a large quantity of photographs in an app while being memory efficient??
There have been a lot of word games (apps) lately and some use graphics but others use photographs and I was hoping that someone could explain how these games manage to get so many photos in an app ...
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Alternative to soundeffect.play()?
I have been using a profiler to optimize my game for the Xbox, my aim is as with any optimization to reduce excess CPU and memory usage. I have managed to cut down a lot of the processor time and ...
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Xna “Game.Run” method appears to be using up a lot of resources in my game, is this normal?
The question really is in the heading, but i have been using the visual studio profiler to optmisie my game, i have noticed that the game.run method is eating through 93.6% of the overall game ...
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Is it good to sort objects list before every rendering?
I need to render a "tile" game, which are like these:
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I don't know how to render them in correct order. I intend to perform a sorting operator before every rendering (depending on their ...
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In modern AAA games with open environment and lot of static content (eg : crysis), how is occlusion culling performed?
Two ideas i have in mind :
1) Scene is rendered to a invisible buffer, using low resolution and low polygon count models (or even using only bounding volumes like cubes or spheres). The buffer is ...
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OpenWorld SceneGraph management and optimization
I have a SceneGraph class which for now is just a simple list implementation, and the only optimization I've planned so far is a check is something like this:
//GetDistance returns the distance ...
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Optimizing models & improving performance
I've created a map editor for a game I've been developing. The maps (planets) are made using a form of meta ball editing. Basically, in the end the Marching Cubes algorithm is used to get my final ...
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why is it faster to draw lots of small arrays than one big array?
This application on-line here has interesting performance characteristics:
Sorting the rectangles to be drawn so it keeps having to change colour is faster than sorting the rectangles by their colour ...
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Texture prefetching in GLSL
I have a fragment shader which needs lots of semi-random access to 32x32 texture patch. Fortunately, the patch is constant for each poly, so there should be no issue storing the whole thing to the ...
