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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LibGDX Box2D TileGame Efficiency
I am trying to implement Box2D into my top down tile game in LibGDX. Each world consists of a set of chunks, and each chunk is 16 tiles wide/long. The maximum/minimum chunks loaded at one time is 9 (a ...
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Large 2D Arrays Causing Garbage Collection
I've been working on a game in Java that, for this post's sake, looks like Terraria and has random world generation. I've been using Vectors to contain my tile/block objects, but recently due to the ...
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Traditional Chunk Loading vs. Chunk Swapping
I'm designing a voxel-based game (aren't we all?), and just yesterday implemented infinite terrain generation. I'd already had the terrain generation working off of simplex noise, so this wasn't a ...
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Why does accessing a uniform float make my shader more than twice as slow?
My fragment shader was significantly slowed down by a recent change, and I've been trying to understand why.
I isolated the main slow-down to accessing a single particular uniform float. If I include ...
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1answer
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Grants a Higher Texture downsized a better quality than a texture with the downsized resolution?
if i use a texture in a game with a resolution of 128*128 for a tile which is actually 64*64 on screen and both textures show the same image just in different resolutions. One in 128*128 and one in ...
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1answer
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OpenGL - Drawing multiple meshes at once using VBOs and IBOs
I have been learning OpenGL 2.1 but using shaders, VBOs, IBOs, etc. I have gotten a rendering engine that can load and draw meshes, materials, forward lighting (no shadows yet), SceneNodes, and ...
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1answer
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CSS Sprite position updates slow due to addition of 'px'?
I'm moving fewer than 10 position: absolute elements around the screen. An enormous amount of CPU time (profiled in Chrome as (program) i.e. native code) is used where I do the following:
style.left ...
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Casting every received packet as struct?
What is the best performant solution to handle received data from socket, in a MMORPG game? Is it good to have something like:
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit, Pack = 1)]
public struct LoginPacket
...
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How to describe the performance requirements for a PC game?
System requirements describe the minimum specifications of the hardware and software required to play a game, in terms of performance and compatibility. Some requirements are clear-cut, like the ...
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SDL, SFML, GLFW specific questions on a very heavy OpenCL engine
Edit: To understand the kind of information this question is looking for, please read Eejins answer.
I'm not familiar with SDL, SFML, GLFW or other libraries because i've been creating windows and ...
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Performance Difference Between Content.Load and Texture.FromStream xna
Is there any performance difference between Texture2Ds loaded using the content pipeline and Texture2Ds loaded using Texture2D.FromStream()?
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2D Game with a big block-based Map - Create for each block one block-object? [duplicate]
I'm working on a 2D game in Java which will be similar to Terraria (Mincecraft 2D).
I want to generae the world-map random. The world (the ground) consists of 32x32 blocks.
How I should handle all ...
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Impact of object's statistics on the rendering
Consider two 3D objects with n points and n triangles. One of the objects has a smooth surface such as a ball or a box, and the other object is like a fuzzy onion-layered object with large ...
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Why are huge polygon amounts bad?
It is always said that the polygon amount of a single modell must be as little as possible when it comes to realtime simulations such as computer games. (Or at least lower than when rendering a movie)
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1answer
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glDrawElements vs glDrawArrays for polygons that do not reuse vertices
Is it better to use glDrawElements or glDrawArrays when not reusing vertices? There must be some difference, otherwise people would always use glDrawElements?
I suppose the question could be ...
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Is there any harm in having the main game loop run uncontrolled?
I was wondering if there is any possible harm when my game loop runs as fast as the system allows?
I currently have a loop, that, by measuring passed time in nanoseconds, runs the game logic and ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0 state management best practices [closed]
I use a game engine with dynamic sprite batching for 2D games on mobile platforms (MOAI SDK). It already handles redundant state changes pretty well - with the use of texture atlases it only flushes ...
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1answer
126 views
3D picking for mouse move event
I implemented color picking recently and I would like to use it as kind of highlight when mouse is over an object but I am concerned about performance. Color picking requires whole frame to be drawn, ...
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Add Objects in LWJGL without using glTranslationf function
It is possible to add an object in LWJGL without using translation function (glTranslatef) ? and if it is possible does this improve somehow performance ?
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Is it possible to create 3d games with good performance in java? [closed]
Recently i use Javafx 8 for creating small 2D games , but i think it can't manage memory and other things very well .I see Jmonkey jmonkeyengine as a game engine for Java and i see some videos of ...
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1answer
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Best practice for organizing the physics of objects?
Apologies because this is a long post and I am inexperienced. I would really appreciate the input from some experienced developers.
These are my two goals for this project:
To learn the best ...
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1answer
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OpenGL - Buffer Usage
I am currently working on a little OpenGL project.
At the moment I am trying to find a good solution for rendering multiple objects.
I have set up a terrain with its own buffers, which works just ...
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How can I profile the speed of my vertex and fragment shaders separately?
I'd like to know how I can check to see if either my vertex or my fragment shader is a bottleneck in my rendering pipeline.
I've read about using glQueryCounter with the GL_TIMESTAMP target to get ...
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1answer
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Slow uniform array in shader causing FPS drop
I'm trying to use an uniform array of matrices in my compute shader. However, it's really slow. I've narrowed it down to this lines of code:
uniform mat4 someMatrixArray[64];
...
vec4 result = ...
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How to I coordinate a camera with the eyes of a model?
I am currently working on an FPS in XNA and I wanted to know how I would position the camera at the eyes of the model and whenever the model rotated or moved it's head (where the eyes are), the camera ...
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Manual occlusion culling with glDrawElements [duplicate]
How should I go about doing occlusion culling with glDrawElements? I am dealing with voxel-like terrain. I want to avoid drawing the faces that are facing another block. I just don't know how to ...
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1answer
616 views
Drawing and scrolling very large zoomed tilemaps
I've been working on my game editor and doing some performance tests. In the meantime I realized that my editors performance goes significant down if I draw a large map and zoom it.
100% zoom = 112 ...
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1answer
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How can I can I reduce the write load on a database for an MMO?
I am considering using MySQL as a database for storing the character states or the world for that matter.
The thing is if I will save the character data on an interval, thus giving rest to the mysql ...
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1answer
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Multithreading issues - Frame skips [closed]
So I am trying to multithread a Voxel engine in C# made with Sharpdx and I am having a few issues:
This is the class I have :
#region
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using ...
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Java single Array best choice for accessing pixels for manipulation?
I am just watching this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwUnMy_pR6A and the guy (who seems to be pretty competent) is using a single array to store and access the pixels of his to-be-rendered ...
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1answer
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Frustum culling vs draw calls
In a more performance-sensitive environment than a desktop CPU/GPU (namely a mobile device) is there really a point in determining whether or not to skip drawing non-visible objects vs reducing the ...
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1answer
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storing user data for rpg
I'm creating a single player Web rpg that will store a decent amount of information about the player, items, map, npcs, etc.
I have been developing html5, javascript, php, and the mysql database ...
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2answers
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How can I improve my collision detection's performance?
I'm new to programming and want to speed up the collision detection in my C++ 2D platformer game engine.
Currently, only the player's collision detection works: Every frame, the player's update ...
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1answer
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Can I use a list sorted by Morton Code for broad phase collision detection?
Until now I used a list of objects sorted by a single axis for limiting the amount of objects that collisions are checked against.
The idea is simple: if the x coordinate of two objects differs by ...
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Theoretically, If GPUs were equipped with faster memory access, how would that impact game development? [closed]
According to NVIDIA memory access time will no longer cost a noticeable overhead. Regardless if it's true or not, I would like to know:
How it would affect games in practice? How will it translate ...
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SVG—rendering performance
I have created a jump'n'run browser-game based on SVG. The »World« grew large (~80px * ~20000px, before scaled to viewport height) and rendering went slow. In consequence I included a range searching ...
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How to efficiently render a large terrain mesh?
Recently I've been stuck on a problem thinking about the best way to generate a terrain into my game. In another projects I normally used heightmaps, so all the core-work was based on the engine used, ...
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4answers
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Why is anti-aliasing so slow?
I have always asked myself this, especially about x4 or x8 anti-aliasing. It seems that over the years, the algorithm has remained the same but needs more power than before due to improved game ...
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Storing rigid body collision shapes in local or world coordinates
I'm writing the beginnings of a lightweight 2d rigid body engine (in javascript, as a hobby project), and i'm debating whether to store collision shapes in local or in (updated as needed) world ...
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How can I avoid overdraw-related performance issues with alpha blending on mobile platforms?
I'm developing a mobile game using Unity3D. I'm evaluating different methods to give the possibility to the artists of customizing the environment. They need to add some static dirty on the walls and ...
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1answer
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Is ArrayLists so slow that it is doomed to kill performance in Unity?
I was reading Which Kind Of Array Or Collection Should I Use?
The document states to use list for the most performance.
"...They are the fastest array in unity. For this reason, built-in arrays ...
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Poor performance in android when running APK, runs fine in browser
I have created a small game project in HTML5 using Phaser engine (tried both 1.1.5 and 1.1.6). Then to port it to mobile platform, used Phonegap/Cordova for Windows Phone 8, Android and iOS.
In my ...
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Slow Update to improve performance?
For my enemy AI, I only need decision making to be done every second or every half second. Would it make a meaningful difference if I didn't run the analyzing method in the Update, but rather invoked ...
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1answer
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When one should use events in Unity and how they impact performance?
let's say that inside an OnGUI() script we want to call a method from another script to handle a particular situation. From a prestational point of view, what's the difference between these 3 ...
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3answers
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Polygons vs sprites rendering performance in Unity for windows phone 8
I'm currently building a windows phone 8 game with unity, having 111 (no more no less) sprites being updated each frames. I have a strong overhead in the profiler (70% to 90% minimum) I tried the ...
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2answers
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Is Batching Geometry Every Frame Always Slower Than Individual Draw Calls
I'm currently have an application that has ~10k draw calls. I implemented a batching scheme where I group all objects that share material, vertex format, etc and pre-transform them by their world ...
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2answers
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Improving the performance of smooth movement up and down
I would like to achieve a smooth movement of a game object up and down. The way I have always seen this done is via a sine wave, and adding the value of y for a specified X to the game objects value ...
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4answers
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Can sprite sheet width and height affect performance?
Is there any performance difference in the way the images are placed inside a sprite sheet image (for the same total area)?
For example, should I place 50 sprites (50x50 each) in a linear way ...
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How can I handle collision detection between many objects efficiently? [duplicate]
I have made a game that runs poorly. I suspect that the way that I programmed the collision detection in the game loop could be the problem.
My game has two player-controlled tanks which fire ...
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1answer
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What coding issues can be significant in damaging the performance of a game? [closed]
I have just finished a 2D game in Java that I've been working on for a while.
I found that on some computers it runs fine, and on others (which are not particularly slow in general), the game runs a ...
