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Poor Performance on Xbox Solved by Opening Guide?

by Bryant Drew Jones · in Torque X 2D · 03/03/2010 (12:25 pm) · 4 replies

Here's a strange one :)

I have a sparse GUISceneView scene (it has 3 or 4 static sprites, but that's it) that I'm loading up when the game launches. On Windows everything runs smoothly, but when I launch on the Xbox I get only 10FPS. It won't even play my background music on the Xbox. However, if I open and close the Xbox guide, the game jumps up to 60FPS and my background music starts playing.

What's being triggered when I open the Xbox guide and why aren't I getting that high level of performance when the game first launches? Has anyone run into this before?

Thanks for the help! :)
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Torque Owner Duncan Colvin
#1
03/03/2010 (12:35 pm)
Bringing up the guide may be causing the normal TX processing to pause. Thus freeing up cpu time to increase the framerate.

Torque Owner Bryant Drew Jones
#2
03/03/2010 (12:41 pm)
That would make sense. But even after I close the guide I still get the performance increase. Here's how it appears to be working:

Launch game: 10 FPS, no music
Open guide: 60FPS, music
Close guide: 60FPS, music

If I never open and close the guide, I'll always get only 10FPS without music. But as soon as I open and close the guide, everything starts working as it should.

Torque Owner Steve Wigmore
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#3
03/03/2010 (1:23 pm)
does the same thing happen if you pause your game and unpause?

Torque Owner Bryant Drew Jones
#4
03/03/2010 (1:44 pm)
No; pausing and unpausing the game has no effect on the performance. But when I was testing my pause functionality, I threw some breakpoints into Visual Studio, and after breaking then resuming the game in the debugger, I got the same performance increase that I got when opening and closing the guide. So weird o_O