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  • Hi, i set my PC to sleep and not turn off so everything is running for days.

    Its not a big deal 4 me and i assumed its a full ram issue...

    i Have

    i5-4690 3,5GHz

    16GB DDR3

    256G SSD

    980gtx

    Thanks irina

    I don't put my computer to sleep, so lets mark that off as not an issue.

    You have 16GB of ram, are you sure it is filling up? When this issue occurs, I have over 20 GB of free ram. Plenty of give.

    I use a GTX 960.

    The brand of SSD I have is a samsung EVO.

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    Sorry, I don't understand - why don't you just close the program at the end of the day?

    It's not the kind of software that's intended to run for days. So who knows what's happening when you leave it running for too long. Maybe it's creating too many temporary files or is somehow affected by the scheduled maintenance tasks Windows runs at night.

    C2 takes just seconds to load, so why stress about it? Just re-open it in the morning and forget about this issue

    Hi dop2000 ,

    I am not 100% sure that is the issue yet. I am still trying to find out, collect data, and get concrete evidence of the issue. Also, this occurs while actively using the software. Unless I am expected to the close it out every hour and reopen it, which would not make sense and should not be needed.

    To clarify, the issue persists after restarting C2. So restarting the software does not help at the end of the day. I need to restart my whole desktop to get the performance back. One could say, just restart your desktop. But again, this issue happens throughout the day and restarting the desktop multiple times does not answer why this is happening. It is also a pain to reopen things - the computer also serves up other purposes which don't allow me to restart it.

    This desktop had no problem over the last year with a near 24/7 upload. Construct I could leave open for extended periods of time no problem. I have completed many projects without this issue occurring. Something has changed and I am hitting a brick wall trying to find out the root cause. One could say, it is clearly your desktop! But that is hard to justify because how is it clear? What is actually causing the issue when no other software is causing issues or showing issues except for C2 on my computer. It would be great if someone had more knowledge of how to debug this issue. This issue is very frustrating and if it wasn't for the fact I was mid-project I would just switch to another tool to do this project. Even that, is not a good solution because of the number of projects I have with C2 that I would have to convert. I feel a little stuck here and I really need to figure this out.

    Hopefully, irina can give us more to go on.

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    > The only thing that I Can find so far to reproduce it is to leave Construct 2 running and open for extended periods of time. When I shut it down after I am done for the day, it works fine the next day. But, if I leave it running for a few days straight it runs into this issue.

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    Same here....

    Hi irina, are you saying you have the same issue?? If so, can you post your computer specs to see if we have any similarities?

    Thanks

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    > > im waiting for your results with the other computer then

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    > Just curious, to what purpose if you are not experiencing this yourself?

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    for same you ask, for track my results too. but before do this i wait your results on the other computer.

    Sounds good, I will report back once I have the results.

  • im waiting for your results with the other computer then

    Just curious, to what purpose if you are not experiencing this yourself?

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    have you tried C2 and your project on another computer?

    have you tried to format your PC and do a perfect clean reinstall of windows and C2?

    I have it running on another computer right now. This is a numbers game though. If people can report back if having their project open for extended periods of time affects performance or not it helps. One account is not enough data to go on. Nor is two, but a handful is.

    As mentioned previously formatting the PC is not an option because it is not a proper solution (it is complete overkill, like telling someone to get a brand new car because they complain their muffler rattles), nor would it provide an explanation to the issue.

    If you would like to help, you can keep construct running with a project open for a few days and report back your results. That would be highly appreciated.

  • Update: issue has occurred again under r239.

    The only thing that I Can find so far to reproduce it is to leave Construct 2 running and open for extended periods of time. When I shut it down after I am done for the day, it works fine the next day. But, if I leave it running for a few days straight it runs into this issue.

    During this issue, (just tried, it took 5 seconds to pop an action dialog), CPU usage is <10%, ram has over 20gb free, disc usage is basically 0.

    No other programs running are suffering performance losses.

    Windows event log shows no issues.

    Can someone do me a huge favor, and open up a project, and leave it running for a few days and see if they run into the same issue? it would be great if someone else could reproduce this and maybe we can determine a fix.

    Thanks

  • any news on the issue with the forums constantly logging you out? When I google this issue, it seems to have been around since atleast 2013?

  • Although too soon to tell, everything is fine on r239 coming from r244. I shall report back after testing this weekend.

  • If you dont want to do a reformat or fresh install

    Then install C2 on a USB stick and then run it on the same computer

    that should at least give you some further indicators

    Reformat is not an option at this point in time (not really an option at all in reality. That should never be a solution for someone. Imagine telling someone to reformat production to solve a software issue, that won't fly). I tried a fresh install of C2, same issue.

    Using C2 on a USB Stick is a great idea. This won't disrupt my current projects, and should isolate possible drive issues. Great idea, I will give this a go.

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  • —, how does that avoid repetition?

    Because the number is only ever used once.

  • in this case, I like a 2D array.

    [

    [RAND VALUE,NUM]]

    so when you populate it would look like this: [[12131,1].[09843,2]...] and then just sort it. Boom, you now have it random. Simply pop off the first value and you are good to go. Less complicated than the route you are trying. Store it to some variable for continuous use until you are done with it.

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    > Once I have more time I can do more test. Unfortunately, Scirra does not provide users with any tools to do any real debugging. Even *if* I determine it is just my computer, the *why* it is my computer is very important.

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    Well, the *why* is your computer, in case, it's your problem, not Scirra problem!

    with all these problems, in your place, the first thing I would try to do would be a quick test of the project on another PC. Just to take the doubt off that it did not depend on me, or on my PC. Only then, eventually, I would open a thread to look for possible solutions..

    Ashley spoke well, if you can not locate and isolate the problem, there is not much to do, and all this becomes just smoke and bad advertising for Scirra's tool.

    So careful with this until you're not sure that not depend on you. So first of all I suggest you try C2 with your project on other PCs (maybe even on C3), and even more than one PC if possible, then if you find the same mistakes you can talk about it, but otherwise it does not make much sense to continue to discuss.

    To be fair, it is part of Scirra's problem. I have their software running and it is not performing as expected. I am using widely run OS and hardware. Most software companies are more than willing to help analyze the problem, including memory collecting tools and extra debugging capturing tools you can run. These types of problems happen, that is inevitable with software in todays age.

    I am sorry if you feel this post is negative, but that is not its intention. I am running into an issue, and am reaching out to the community. I have gotten very positive responses, except for yours. I have had many people reach out to me both here publically and privately with similar and a few of the same issue. This is what being a community is about, being able to reach out to others with problems, suggestions, and solutions. So I am sorry if you cannot see that. I have noted your suggestion for me to try in the future when time allows for more in-depth analyzation on my own time.

  • but, have you tried to do all this thing on another computer? because at this point i think the problem could be something on your PC.

    Once I have more time I can do more test. Unfortunately, Scirra does not provide users with any tools to do any real debugging. Even *if* I determine it is just my computer, the *why* it is my computer is very important.

    I noticed that too - it takes way longer then a while back, but I don't remember when I started noticing this. I thought it was my pc.

    How about opening dialogs, do you have any issue there?

  • So I hit an interesting issue where on some browsers, blend modes were not working right. I am using them to overlay an image, to create a "reveal affect" (such as one would use for a timer, or loading bar).

    Everything looked fine, but then I got a report of odd display issues. It took a heck long time to debug this, because there was no error. To make it worse, I was using the exact same version of chrome as the user who reported it. I would think it comes down to a settings issue, but I am not sure what.

    What it looks like happened is the Destination In was being treated as Destination Out. Obviously, if you have played with Blend Modes, this would cause terrible issues with your display.

    I switched my image to handle Destination Out instead and changed the blend mode to Destination Out (essentially just inverting the sprite). And bingo-bango it worked!.

    Sorry for no real examples, like I said this was an interesting one. Hard to capture it and hard to screenshot it (since the end result was no image being shown versus one should have shown). I posted this just in case anyone else has a similar issue and needs a solution.