Torque.exe size change and FPS drop
by Vincent D · in Torque Game Engine · 07/22/2006 (7:14 am) · 10 replies
So i installed the engine for a project i looked in the example folder and saw that the torqueDemo.exe is 1.07 mb. But when i build the torqueDemo_DEBUG.exe and didnt change anything the file is 7.14 mb. why this difference in size?
#2
Edit: Grammar.
07/22/2006 (7:27 am)
The difference in size is because you're building a DEBUG version and GarageGames compressed the executable with UPX before they shipped it out.Edit: Grammar.
#3
07/22/2006 (2:45 pm)
Ok thanks, then something else. When i run my own build (still DEBUG) the FPS is like 10 and running the GG version it is around 70 FPS. What causes this and what can i do about it?
#4
07/22/2006 (5:15 pm)
Alright same problem.... lol i builded in release mode and both problems are gone
#6
07/23/2006 (1:35 am)
No changes. And i think i would like to know why this is? 1.3 played fine when builded in DEBUG mode. so can anybody tell me why? 
#7
i use 1.3 heavily, and a debug build is always much slower than a release build.
just a fact of life.
have you tried a release build of your current project ?
are you sure it was a debug build which played fine ?
07/23/2006 (1:39 am)
Debug builds are simply way slower.i use 1.3 heavily, and a debug build is always much slower than a release build.
just a fact of life.
have you tried a release build of your current project ?
are you sure it was a debug build which played fine ?
#8
07/23/2006 (1:46 am)
Yea im very sure, but you cant tell me why a debug build is slower? I could imagine it just builds faster and thereby not very good. or ehm...it puts all the debug info in the executable?
#9
07/23/2006 (2:33 am)
Debug has no optimisation. 
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