C2 r196 + Chrome = hey, pretty good! :)

Since the Penelope EA launch, I made no updates on anything, because, well, too dangerous. I stayed with r186.2 for months.

I was curious about the last C2 update because of the perf improvements, and just tried the game on a quite low perf laptop.

C2 r196 + Chrome Version 40.0.2214.94 m:

I get a few janks on start (music loading I guess), then, YEAH BUTTERSMOOTH YEAH.

The game was running at 40/45fps max before on this hardware + chrome, and it's now 60fps with all effects enabled, rock solid.

Particles, destroy events, and shaders seems do not harm the framerate anymore. Create events can cause a few janks, but subtle ones, nothing important.

Lovely surprise, oh, and frameskip seems way more visualy correct as well.

So, thanks a lot Ashley, I don't know what changes had the more impact on the game, but it seems to be for the very best! : )

It is amazing to see what is possible with C2! You made a really good job here and congratz for you.

I will def. buy the game on my next steam shopping tour

P.S. I think you made a mistake in your comment, because you wrote r169

Aurel

That's good news! Curious... Are you using Box2D web or asm.js?

Glad to hear that a bigger project benefited as well. It just proves we should never be complacent with what we got. got.

Since r186.2 we made several runtime optimisations, including...

• Runtime now loads project data from a separate data.js file instead of bundling everything in to c2runtime.js
• The renderer now experimentally skips rendering layers with zero instances on them
• Destroying large numbers of instances in one go is now considerably faster.
• Some performance improvements to the event engine particularly around expression evaluation

r196 also bases delta-time calculations off the browser's renderer timestamps instead of javascript timer measurements, which should make for more accurate motion.

Glad to hear it makes a noticable difference

Ashley just want to let you know that with chrome 40.0.2214.94 m and R196.2 (at full screen only) I'm getting zero jank/jitter with both Box2D web and asm.js . Windowed it's not nearly as bad as it was, but for what it's worth full screen is running great.

— Games whoops, edited. Thank you : )

— I don't use any physics object in the game, so I let the one by default.

Ashley And I can definitely see it on low spec hardware! Very impressive : )))

If it's good enough for Aurel, im ready to make the jump Though im on 195 so im likely already seeing most of the benefit..