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Time to upgrade from Windows XP
Windows XP was released in 2001, making it over 12 years old. Microsoft aren't going to support it forever, and so support for Win... Read more
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nVidia hobbles WebGL performance on laptops
On dual-GPU laptops, nVidia appears to be deliberately disabling use of the faster GPU in browsers. This means on their systems mo... Read more
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Collision cell optimisation in r155
The latest beta update r155 introduces a major new performance optimisation: Collision cells. These can provide a huge performance... Read more
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Tech blog: Tilemap tidbits
In the latest beta update r149 of Construct 2 we've shipped a new official Tilemap plugin, with tilemap editor features and the ab... Read more
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The never ending issue of dual-encoding
I've ranted a fair deal about the problem of audio codecs in HTML5 already. Here's some older Scirra blog posts on the subject - n... Read more
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