Should I import my sprites in correct size or scale them?

Lets say I have a sprite 200x100px. I want it to be 100x50px in game. Should I scale it down and import at correct size, or should I import the larger file and scale it down with the engine?

Any tips are appreciated!

Turaco

Personally I work with Power of 2 sizes (16x16, 32x32, 256x256) etc and scale them in engine.

This is a throwback from my days working with Unreal engine though, as it was more efficient to do it that way in the past.

There's a decent article here on why P02 is best.

https://www.katsbits.com/tutorials/text ... of-two.php

Basically, using Power of 2 images speeds up loading and can solve a lot of performance problems due to the way 'most' games engines handle textures and how they're loaded into system memory