The quality, efficiency, and speed of running gameplay as a result of several factors in the design and structure of the game and its architecture.
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pygame performance issues
I'm trying to make a tactics game using python and the infamous pygame library. I use threading for networking and pathfinding. The game uses a p2p lockstep architecture, with one of the players ...
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Fast and minimalistic C++ 3D engine [closed]
I am trying to build a very simple game (ish), and for all this question cares, it's based on minecraft (therefore, no fancy 3D rendering needed). Though I do know a lot about pure OpenGL, there are ...
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2answers
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Stronger Hack-proof MMO Game Comparison: Game Client Based Vs. Via Web Browser [duplicate]
I was wondering. I observed most of any MMO that are hack-prone area. Hacks used one-hit kills, stealing accounts, instant level up, aimbots (mostly MMOFPS), and questionable wallers (also in MMOFPS). ...
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2answers
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poor performance with kinect sdk and xna (color stream)
I'm trying to make an augmented reality game for advertisement, using the kinect sdk 1.6 and xna 4.0. I need to use the color image format rgb 1280X960, in spite of the fact that it runs at 12fps, ...
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0answers
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DRY 0-bandwidth-overhead-serialization in C#: virtual, delegates or reflection?
I'm (de)serializing some datastructures for a network-multiplayer game, and for each datastructure that's to be (de)serialized, I want to define the order of (de)serialization only once for ...
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3answers
152 views
Do larger sprite sheets improve performance in html 5 games?
I know when I did some game development with XNA they recommended that we try to group are sprites into fewer sheets because the graphic card could process it faster. Does this also apply to web based ...
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1answer
125 views
Automatically generate low detail collision meshes
I lately integrated Bullet Physics into my little game engine, but for now I only use basic shapes as spheres or boxes for collision checks. For more realistic physics I need collision meshes for all ...
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1answer
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Drawing more that one quad with only one glDrawArray call…?
Edit
After initially thinking that my sprite batch test was faster than calling each sprite individually, it appears that is not the case!! :-(
With a single set of GL calls for a each sprite, I can ...
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Problem of saturation of ram on XNA?
I developed a small xna games.
For some time I have a problem with the saturation of RAM. In fact everything works perfectly, the game runs with a "Frame" of 60fps. But strangely I do not know for ...
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1answer
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Optimize maximum performance “Frustum.contain ()” on XNA?
I wonder if it is possible to optimize the performance of "BoundingFrustum" requesting return of the visible elements that are found only on the part of the ground before the player .. Checker and not ...
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3answers
188 views
One AI object for each npc
Let's think for a moment a game where you'll have around 1k npcs, each one has to take its own decisions. Should each one has an object that decides what to do, or maybe exist one to process every ...
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1answer
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Travelling in a 2D grid
I have a 2D grid (x,y coordinates) where each cell corresponds to each pixel of the interface that I am working with and I have a point A(x1,y1). Now I need to travel around in the grid, and I wont ...
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1answer
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Using 4096*4096 background image in uinty tk2d
I am new to Unity and I am developing a game using unity its a 2d game i am using tk2d framework. I have a big background image(4096*4096) how can I load this background so only visible part of the ...
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2answers
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D3DXCreateEffect Performance
Current performance analysis shows that D3DXCreateEffect is called many times with different shaders. Between each call, the D3DCompile DLL is being loaded and unloaded. Is there an easy way to keep ...
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1answer
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GLImpl.gldrawelements longer than usual
I'm developing a little game engine for the Android platform and I'm trying to improve the performance of this one. (I'm not an OpenGL expert)
I can see a framerate drop sometimes, when using DDMS ...
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0answers
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iSGL3D Occlusion Culling
I was testing a cool 3D Scene Graph Library called iSGL3D. Since I found some functions called alpha culling for displaying partly hidden objects (making the ones in front transparent). I was ...
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1answer
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GLES2 rendering performance for different iPad generations
I'm using C++/GLES2 for iPad only (no iPhone). The only device I own is an iPad2 and I do not plan to support iPad 1.
Can anyone help me understand realistic goals/limits on iPad 2/3/4 in terms of ...
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0answers
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XNA Kinect Color Stream Performance Issues
I am developing an XNA game using Kinect. It requires using Depth and Color streams for extracting only the player's image from the color image. So far I can extract the image and set their data into ...
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1answer
67 views
SpriteBatch.Draw with scale or rotation trigger a new batch?
I recently read that any transformation changes will cause a new batch to be triggered.
So, if I have 10 Sprites and each has a different rotation or scale will there be 10 batches sent up?
Or is ...
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1answer
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How can I access bitmaps created in another activity?
I am currently loading my game bitmaps when the user presses 'start' in my animated splash screen activity (the first / launch activity) and the app progresses from my this activity to the main game ...
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2answers
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Managing graphic state and components?
I often tend to do a lot of premature optimazation when dealing with graphics. There are a few principles I always try to follow:
Keep the number of D3D components to a minimum. (Render states, ...
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0answers
260 views
Improving performance of a particle system (OpenGL ES)
I'm in the process of implementing a simple particle system for a 2D mobile game (using OpenGL ES 2.0). It's working, but it's pretty slow. I start getting frame rate battering after about 400 ...
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iOS billboard rendering performance
What is the fastest way to render semi-transparent billboards (for a particle system) on iOS? I'm currently using GLES1, but if required for performance I can switch to GLES2.
Does sorting the quads ...
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0answers
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How to occlude lights in Unity3D?
First off, I own Unity Pro.
I've been looking in to occluding lights when they aren't being viewed for a while now to improve performance. The main methods I ran in to were using BecameVisible() and ...
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3answers
630 views
MonoGame performance better then XNA?
I am currently thinking about porting a XNA game to other platforms using MonoGame. Do I understand this correctly that I can expect the game to render faster even under Windows 7 due to the use of ...
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3answers
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Vector3 vs. Vector2 - performance, usage?
I'm currently playing around with XNA, and creating a simple 2D platformer. I was thinking of adding multiple layers to make it a little bit of challenge.
In stead of having a Vector2 for my ...
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2answers
438 views
How do I simulate a crowd in the stadium stands?
I'm working on a mobile sports game with Unity. I'm wondering how I could create an efficient effect of an audience in the stadium.
I know that with more than 15 characters in my games (with 1800 ...
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1answer
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Vector2's static methods and the garbage collector
I discovered that Vector2's static methods return a different Vector2 from the parameters you give them and I'm under the impression that creating new objects and dereferencing old ones on this kind ...
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2answers
146 views
Approaches for storing grid-like information
I am drawing this simple grid on my NodeJS server:
var grid = [];
for(var x = 0; x < 20; x++){
grid[x] = [];
for(var y = 0; y < 20; y++){
grid[x][y] = 0;
}
}
...
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5answers
907 views
Why is chunk size often a power of two?
There are many Minecraft clones out there and I am working on my own implementation. A principle of terrain rendering is tiling the whole world in fixed size chunks to reduce the effort of localized ...
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3answers
647 views
C++ and OpenGL ES: glDrawArrays calls are time consuming
Currently, I'm profiling my iOS. All the calls to glDrawArrays are expensive. For example, here is a screenshot of the rendering part of a particle system:
As you can see, the glDrawArrays call ...
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0answers
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shader-based particle systems
I have a classic particle system where each particle is represented by a quad and, each time step, I move each particle.
My target is webGL which means I don't have instancing, attribute divisors nor ...
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1answer
193 views
SFML - Completely Unlimit Framerate
I am trying to completely unlimit the SFML framerate, so that as many frames will be displayed as possible. The reason for this is I want to loop through one section of code which calculates positions ...
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1answer
505 views
How fast do games in Flash C++ Compiler execute compared to C++?
Flash Player can now run C++ code, that is cross complied with the Adobe Flash C++ Compiler. How fast does such code run in comparison to a C++ application running as an EXE, in the context of gaming?
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3answers
362 views
Libgdx optimization of big arrays
I am working on a game using libgdx and I have the following code that I want to optimize.
Array<Bullet> enemyBullets = Enemy2.getEnemyBullets();
for (Bullet bullet : enemyBullets) {
...
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1answer
216 views
Improving SpriteBatch performance for tiles
I realize this is a variation on what has got to be a common question, but after reading several (good answers) I'm no closer to a solution here. So here's my situation:
I'm making a 2D game which ...
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1answer
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Animate multiple entities
I'm trying to animate multiple(3) entities using one model(IQM format).
It's working but performance is really bad because I'm calling animate function for each entity in my game loop (I think ...
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2answers
509 views
HTML5 - Does it have the power to handle a large 2D game with a huge world? [closed]
I have been using XNA game studio, but due to private reasons (as well as the ability to publish anywhere & my heavy interest in isogenic engine), I would like to switch to HTML5.
However, I have ...
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2answers
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How to efficiently map tokens to code in a script interpreter?
I'm writing an interpreter for a simple scripting language where each line is a complete, executable command. (Like the instructions in assembler)
When parsing a line I have to map the requested ...
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0answers
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Opengl binding shaders vs binding buffers performance
Quick question for an opengl guru, I'm in the process of building a render queue and can either reduce the number of shader binding or the number of vertex buffer binding. I just want to know which ...
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2answers
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Recommended formats to store bitmaps in memory?
I'm working with general purpose image rendering, and high-performance image processing, and so I need to know how to store bitmaps in-memory. (24bpp/32bpp, compressed/raw, etc)
What is the "usual" ...
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1answer
432 views
Speeding up procedural texture generation
Recently I've begun working on a game that takes place in a procedurally generated solar system. After a bit of a learning curve (having neither worked with Scala, OpenGL 2 ES or Libgdx before), I ...
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2answers
245 views
What is the best way to check if there is overlap between player and static, non-collidable items in bullet physic engine
I'd like to add non collidable objects (eg: power ups, items, ...) in a game world using Bullet Physics Engine and to know if there is collision between player and them.
Some info : there is a lot ...
6
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1answer
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Timestep schemes for physics simulations
The operations used for stepping a physics simulation are most commonly:
Integrate velocity and position
Collision detection and resolution
Contact resolution (in advanced cases)
A while ago I ...
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votes
3answers
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How do I know if I've gone too far with processing things in a game?
A common programming quote I see every day is:
Premature optimization is the root of all evil!
I admit I'm one of those guys that like to do premature optimization in a pretty obssessive manner ...
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2answers
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Read only array, deep copy or retrieve copies one by one? (Performance and Memory) [closed]
The question is asked regarding an environment with garbage collection.(Java, AS3)
I am writing a level editor using MVC and the view needs to have read only access to the data in the model for ...
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2answers
533 views
Use a SQL Database for a Desktop Game
Developing a Game Engine
I am planning a computer game and its engine. There will be a 3 dimensional world with first person view and it will be single player for now. The programming language is C++ ...
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0answers
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Updating physics for animated models
For a new game we have do set up a scene with a minimum of 30 bone animated models.(shooter)
The problem is that the update process for the animated models takes too long.
Thats what I do:
Each ...
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2answers
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How to deal with large open worlds?
In most games the whole world is small enough to fit into memory, however there are games where this is not the case, how is this archived, how can the game still run fluid even though the world is so ...
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1answer
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Information about rendering, batches, the graphical card, performance etc. + XNA?
I know the title is a bit vague but it's hard to describe what I'm really looking for, but here goes.
When it comes to CPU rendering, performance is mostly easy to estimate and straightforward, but ...
