"Hero the Dog" performance test
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| This project has been shelved so that I may finish a c++ game called "Cosmo Bots", which is alomst done finally :) So I will be getting back to finishing this game. The game uses the Best Friends source code as its base, and most of my time has been spent on a sophisticated level editor, so there's not much here in the way of gameplay. But I was having some performance issues, and wanted to see how it performs on other people's computers. It's strange to me that it can be choppy- when Best Friends is smooth on the same machine. Is there some sort of a limit for the number of surfaces that, when you cross, performance goes down the toilet?! Thanks! -Mike http://www.retro64.com/bf2222/herotest2.exe PS: Check out his idle anims, I think they're cute :) screenshot:  |
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| Works smoothly here on my pish 1.1ghz, 256mb RAM and old Gfx2. I hear that you should try and keep the surface count < 200. |
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| Is there some sort of a limit for the number of surfaces that, when you cross, performance goes down the toilet?! Yeah, about 10, lol. In all seriousness, surface count is by far the biggest problem in most cases, but it's very hard to find a cut off point. I'd say way less than 200 though, but I've been able to keep surface count down to around 20-30 in all the games I've made. I'd certainly be aiming to keep it under 50 if you can. It's as smooth as a lie from a politician's mouth here, but that's on an Athlon 2700 and Radeon 9700 Pro, so that doesn't tell you much. |
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| Nice and smooth here, 1.7Ghz and Radeon 9500 Pro. Sprites can be something of a frame killer if you use too many, try and make them all single surface instead. |
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| "But I was having some performance issues, and wanted to see how it performs on other people's computers." So... I guess you might say... it runs like a dog? |
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| Ran fine, but when it first started there appeared to be lots of ugly dithering artifacts and then the video mode changed and they went away. I think maybe you put the game into a 16 bit color mode to start, and your title screen image is dithered which interferes with the dynamicly changing dithering my Radeon does in 16bit color mode. Then you changed to either a non dithered 16bit color mode, or a 32bit color mode and things looked fine. |
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| A Donkey Kong remake! :) Nice music... It runs smoothly (like a greyhound) on my 1.7 Ghz, Radeon 9600 256 Mb. |
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| ran super smooth on my P-M 1,5ghz ( Benias ) with Mobility Radeon 9700 64MB |
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| Runs fine, the controls feel a little robotic. |
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| Runs fine here. |
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| Runs pretty smooth here - just 1 or 2 bouts of jerkiness. 850Mhz Athlon 128MB GeForce 256 |
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| Runs smoothly for me, although I do get a 1 pixel wide line of corruption (for want of a better word) down the left of the screen. |
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| Runs quite poorly here, unlike Best Friends. I've got an Athlon XP 2000+, with a GF2 MX. Have you run it through my preprocessor/profiler to figure out why it's running badly? |
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| Runs really smooth on my system. Spec's in my sig. Game-play wise though, I would feel more comfortable if the game ran a little quicker, as I felt it to be a bit on the slow side. |
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| Glad to hear you're hopefully not chucking this one after all, Mike. |
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| runs smooth here!!!! :-D PIII 1.0 GHz 384 MB RAM NVIDIA GeFORCE 4 TI 4200 128 MB DDR RAM |
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| Runs smooth here. P3/1G 256MB RAM ge4ti/4400 256MB RAM WinXP SP1 |
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| I didnt notice anything wrong AMD Athlonx XP +1500 512MB DDR Ram GeForce 3 Ti500 WinXp Sp2 |
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| Smooth as a baby's freshly-shaved head on what appears to be one of the lesser machines in this thread. :o) Got the same "dither -> mode change -> no dither" thing sswift mentioned, but to me it just looked like a standard 'game is setting up' sort of thing to do. [edit] Of course, that only happened the very first time I ran it - then (I guess) the 'prefs' file meant I had but one loading screen before the game proper (and 'twas the non-dithered version). Hurrah! [/edit] |
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