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  • Sizcoz, add action at start of layout set minimun framerate 60. What about then?

    Still makes no difference.

    For what it's worth, I can improve the performance and keep jank to a minimum if I change my power settings to high performance instead of power saving (which is default on most laptops), and keep it plugged in.

    This was covered in a previous thread,https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/we-need-to-talk-about-the-jank-137602, this is fine but most casual laptop owners would either A) Not know how to do this or B) Not be bothered to do this for a game.

    I don't know if this is a chrome and windows 10 thing only, so that's the another reason why I asked If anybody had a chromebook to see if it made a difference, If you do have a chromebook it would be interesting to try the project on power saving and then high performance power settings to see if it gives a different result in comparison to windows 10.

    cheers

  • Could you try this version? I replaced the bullet behavior and the drag and drop plugin with normal events. I'm curious if this really has an impact.

    https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1e5c18mnfh-gOHaz7iR47mUJNKVhRH4pe

    No difference, if anything maybe a little worse

  • Jank can be caused by background network activity,

    I think the web worker thing was supposed to solve this by having the game on a separate thread

    but (dont quote me on this as I'm not as up to date on construct news I used to be)

    but the last I read on one of Ashley's updates was that the worker thing was deactivated for now pending a future update of chrome . that was a couple of months back I think so not sure if there has been an update since then.

    You can enable web worker in the settings, with enable experimental features checked, this is in the latest stable r131.

    There is no less visible scrolling jank difference, with my laptop, with this enabled.

    I am not knocking c3, in fact I think it's great, and will re-subscribe, but we are limited to chrome, or chrome variants, so it does matter, it affects what we produce, for our target markets, most issues are normally fixed by advances in technology, but this one seems to be hanging around.

  • Here's another one using a different screen recorder = it's SOOooo Jerky!!!!!!

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/yP8Yv3kVc358EwMB8

    Yep, this is pretty much what i'm getting, on my laptop, really unplayable.

    If I was a customer and downloaded this game on my laptop, I would be disappointed and delete it promptly.

    It's a shame really, seeing as we rely on chrome so much, this has been going on for years now, some versions of chrome are better than others, but c3 scrolling is a problem on certain chrome dependant devices, that's a fact.

    I asked for a chromebook test, because I believe this is a growing market, and most new chromebooks play android apps, and have touch screens, so the potential casual chromebook market is going to grow, even Microsoft has an office app for chromebooks now, So it's important that apps that scroll like endless runner's work to a minimum jank free standard.

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  • I didnt try the apk

    but preview is always janky and not representative of real world hosted or nwjs

    eg (i hosted your project)

    http://yamaforce.com/Test002/

    is as smooth as butter for me and that is on Intel 520 integrated graphics

    (edit) tested (hosted) on crappiest phone in the house (my work phone) moto g4, and still smooth as butter. zero jank

    yep moto g6 is good with apk, It's only my i7 nvidia 745m that has problems, also if i switch to integrated, it still yanks, and that's with your hosted project.

    If I minimise the laptop screen, It improves, but still janks, I'm not really bothered as I target Mobiles, and these seem to have better results, I would be interested to see how it performs on chromebooks, If anybody has one to try on.

  • Sizcoz, show me the jank (: Can you record video with that i7, also with worker mode.

    I just enabled worker mode in c3, it did not make any difference on my laptop.

    I have had trouble before with my laptop with jank, but only with scrolling games, so I don't bother with them anymore.

    I haven't used the game recorder yet, until there are some examples of how to use it, I don't want to spend time trying to work it out, unless you could point me to an example tutorial?

    Cheers.

  • Hi

    I have tried your test app.

    On my laptop i7, the jank is hideous.

    On my moto g6 android 8 with remote preview, it has jank, but is a lot better.

    On my moto g6 android 8 with apk, the jank is much, much better, hardly noticable.

    C3 on chrome has janking issues with scrolling on some devices, even with tiny projects like yours.

    I have asked about this issue before, and apparently the blame lies squarely with chrome.

    With Microsoft now moving its Edge browser to a chrome based one, I hope there is some improvement in the future, as we will now be more reliant on chrome more than ever, I suppose time will tell.

    Cheers.

  • Thanks, I found "Android System WebView" in the google play store and updated it. Now it works.......

    Just concerned about people that don't know how to do this though.........

    If it's Nougat or above, Android System Webview is disabled because its function is covered by Chrome now.

    That's Android 7 and above, so only devices below Android 7 might have a problem if WebView is not up to date.

  • I found a line in the c2runtime.js file which said:

    score_ = parseInt(score_);

    I changed this to:

    score_ = parseFloat(score_);

    and now my decimals are showing!!

    Only slight issue now is that it's not always showing two decimal places - so if the score is:

    17.40 it's displayed as 17.4. Is there any way to display it as 17.40?

    Thanks for all your help guys - I got there in the end but wouldn't have without your helpful steers!!

    Try this

    https://www.sizzle-games.com/float_correction.capx

  • How to make that Sprite1 will follow path of the Sprite2 with delay of 1 or 2 seconds?

    I want sprites follow the leader with full path of moves, like in Happyland Adventures game.

    You could do it by an array, I have made a simple example. to change the follow delay, increase the event with the x size of the array (last event)

    https://www.sizzle-games.com/follow.capx

    Arrow Keys to move

  • Yes I'm sure it is - it's rounding down the whole time.

    I just cannot see where this is happening.

    Just as a side note, in construct 3 you need a https server to see the ajax info.

    Most Servers let you use a free Https, called Let's Encrypt.

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