FPS falling badly Match 3 block-based puzzle

Hi guys.. I need help as i am new to Construct 2. I downloaded the Match-3 game tutorial from:

gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/series/make-a-match-3-game-in-construct-2--gamedev-12721

I opened the project in Construct 2 r155 and started it with chrome in debug mode and I found out that the tutorial is very well explaind but the framerate is falling badly as the Blocks are created on canvas.

I would be good to know whats going wrong and how to fix this.

While i am not using dropbox and either don't know how to upload here is the link to the capx direct.

gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/make-a-match-3-game-in-construct-2-chaining-and-game-overs--gamedev-9571

My suggestion. When I was working on RexRainbow's base for another person. I found that for every match the system would generate 2000 blocks. I suggest turning on the debug and watching for the sprite count.

If that is the problem search where the sprite generation is and then check the conditions.

jayderyu thanks for the quick response but if i were that good i would have not posted it in forum. I have created groups to check in debug profiler and the problem is where sprites are generated "Create Blocks" on runtime.

As a learner i don't know how to fix this. Amazing part is that there are not many sprits generated. I made a test where i created more then 2000 sprits on canvas at runtime with animations etc. and the framrate was 40 to 50.

Match3-FindActiveFix.capx

The problem is that he's calling FindMatches() (almost) every tick, even if nothing has changed from the last time the call was made. FindMatches() is a very expensive operation, so you only want to call it when something changes.

I've added a FindActive flag to minimize the number of FindMatches() called. Do a search for FindActive, to see what was changed.

I've added a FPS display to show that it stays mostly at 60fps.

blackhornet you are genius. Thank you very much for the quick help.

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There is a bug - if you drag blocks faster some of them just stuck