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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  well, i think turning off the triple buffering AND setting the "max frames to pre-render" to 0 (default was 3 for some reason) lowers the lag A LOT.

  Out of interest, where were those settings? Are they in your graphics card driver options? What make is your graphics card?

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  OK folks, chat is now IRC via Mibbet. They put a banner ad on there though, so use your favourite IRC client if you like...

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  Ooh, nice effect

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  I'm not sure why this happens. I guess it would be useful to narrow it down to a single setting.

  I can't see how Construct could cause more than two or three frames latency given double buffering, which should appear almost instant. It might be something to do with graphics cards settings, VSync, mouse settings, or a combination. I don't know of anything I could do to rectify this at all; as far as my code does, it gets the mouse position and draws it, all in the same frame, so I can't see where such a large delay would come from!

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  The mouse behavior does not use timedelta. It's almost identical to using an always - set position to mousex, mousey event.

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  Since the website upgrade the chat has stopped working. (Thanks Aeal for noticing)

  I think we may as well get rid of it and use an IRC channel, since the old phpBB chat seemed to burn a lot of server bandwidth and was slow and kept saying 'Error: connection status 0'.

  Is anyone already running an IRC chat? I can put links to an "official" channel in the chat window.

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  'Every X milliseconds' cannot trigger faster than the framerate, so at 75 fps, 'Every 1 ms' will trigger every 13.3 ms instead (ie. every tick).

  The correct way is to use TimeDelta.

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  I think it's a known issue; try just kicking off the music loop again in an 'On loaded' event (it's a system condition that triggers after loading the app state).

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  Please report bugs through the tracker, thanks... also, it's very important to have them reproducable so they can be fixed.

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  Sorry, I've updated the original post text to say it is now the new stable build.

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  Have you tried the Ghost Shooter tutorial? It covers some of this.

  For lives you want:

  "Lives: " & global('Life')

  There's also a condition in the system object to compare a global variable.

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  Click the question mark icon in the top right. It's true 0.99.62 came out about two weeks ago, I only decided to set up the auto-updater now, since I'm fairly sure it's stable(r).

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  Wow, sorry about the downtime on the forum, but after a truly monumental effort it's now working, is upgraded to 3.0.6, and is relocated to scirra.com/forum.

  Hopefully everything works now.

  Hopefully.

  Let me know if there are still any quirks...

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  Hmm, is anyone having trouble creating new threads? I may have accidentally broked the phpBB install...