Yeah I found it incredibly dull on PC. So dull in fact, that I got about 1/4 way through and uninstalled it and it's rare for me to not finish a game I've started, no matter how crap it is. I guess I was expecting something like Undying since Barker's name was on it... maybe I had high expectations.

WORK PC (this one - Dual Core):

Device name: ATI Radeon X1900XT

Pixel shader: 3

Estimated VRAM: 512 MB

Motion blur: Yes

TESTING PC (P4):

Device name: ATI Radeon 9000 Pro

Pixel shader: 1.4

Estimated VRAM: 64mb

Motion blur: Nope

OK after some quick experimenting.. I was getting 500-600 FPS with this version. Then I set about deleting each particle emitter one by one starting with the asteroid particles and the frame rate only went up around 50-100 FPS. Eventually I deleted the background glittering stars and my FPS shot up to 2000+! So... that emitter was causing a huge slowdown. I disabled the effects on that layer and it runs at 2000+ FPS so that's where the problem was... at least for me.

Try removing those effects and see what your FPS is

Yeah I do have a lot going on. Like I mentioned, I think it's to do with the size of the asteroids more than anything... of course having multiple particle emitters probably isn't helping any!

Nice one. Going to experiment later then. Going to need to knwo how to do popup menus and the like at some point anyway

Cool! Will be keeping my eyes on this one...

I started one the other day but it got a little complex.. so I put it to the side for now..

Meant to say.. this is quite nice and of course mipey, you know now that I was inspired by this for my demo. How does this perform on your PC? Seems a lot of particles there.

Could be the huge 256x256 asteroids then. I noticed I had the timeout set to 5 - 8s on particles that were on screen for around 2-3secs. I sorted that and I'm not sure if it made any difference at all on my work machine (dual core). I'll try it on my P4 after a few adjustments and will post the results/update here. Would be nice to get it smooth on low end machines.

Cheers guys!

haha no problemo. Let me know if it works as it'll be very useful if it does.

Wouldn't the layout object (under OTHER category when inserting an object) do this? I'm not sure as I only spotted it yesterday but didn't play around with it or anything.

What CPU do you have?

That's pretty sweet! I could imagine a few uses for that effect..