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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 11 Nov, 2020
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  Bug fixes filed in the C3 runtime usually aren't backported to the C2 runtime, so it may well be that there are still bugs in the C2 runtime that were fixed in the C3 runtime.

  It shouldn't matter, since the C2 runtime is being retired in July. You really should stop using it as soon as you can.

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  • 11 Nov, 2020
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  FYI, the tilemap object was never designed to be used with 1x1 tiles. It was designed for each tile to be a reasonably sized independent image.

  Using C3, the C3 runtime is faster than the C2 runtime. It appears to sit idle most of the time, but when you click, the C2 runtime spikes the CPU usage up to 30%, but the C3 runtime only spikes the CPU usage up to 7%. So it looks like the C3 runtime is about 4x faster.

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  • 11 Nov, 2020
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  We can already publish the game with unlimited frame rate mode. I read on the forum that even someone is using it to make sure that the app run smoother in all devices.

  A strong warning is shown on export if you try to do that, because you should never publish a game with that mode.

  What you are suggesting is an incredibly ugly hack that will not only prove very difficult to actually usefully apply, but could well make things even worse. It really is the wrong direction to go in. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

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  • 10 Nov, 2020
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  I think it's more likely that what you propose will make things worse, not better. Either the developers or the players will be likely to mis-configure the option, and then the situation is worse than it was to begin with.

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  • 10 Nov, 2020
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  A recent update to the Turkish translation has increased the number of problems to 150. The list is available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hfjvrogr9vcwvtl/tr-TR-2020-11-10.txt?dl=0

  They will all need to be corrected before the in-progress translation in the Construct editor is updated again.

  The translation currently has many systematic mistakes characteristic of using machine translation. Please do not use machine translation, like Google Translate, when translating Construct 3. It is an inappropriate tool that results in poor quality translations. These translations will then fail later quality reviews and have to be re-done, resulting in wasted effort and taking longer before the translation is ready. Translation rewards will NOT be issued for use of machine translation.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 10 Nov, 2020
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  The Polish translation currently has 60 problems. This is an increase of 50 problems since August 2019. The list is available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6zp6r2hhcnneru3/pl-PL-2020-11-10.txt?dl=0

  They will all need to be corrected before the in-progress translation in the Construct editor is updated again. It has not been updated for some time now.

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  • 10 Nov, 2020
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  The latest version of Cordova increased the minimum Android version to 5.1. Older versions are no longer supported. According to StatCounter, less than 1% of devices still use Android 5.0.

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  • 10 Nov, 2020
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  If you have trouble with displaying AdMob ads you should contact AdMob - that part isn't handled by Construct.

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  • 10 Nov, 2020
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  Ashley, would you consider to allow us to switch the framerate mode in realtime?

  No, that's not a solution, it's just a hack which only raises further difficult problems, like: how do you know when to turn it on? There are thousands of different devices out there with different hardware and different software configurations. And if you get it wrong, you'll drain the device battery, which is a worse problem than you started with.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 10 Nov, 2020
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  You'd need to file a new issue following all the guidelines if you want that to be investigated, because the previous issue was fixed.

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  • 9 Nov, 2020
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  See this thread covering the same problem. It looks like an AdMob bug, your best bet is to post in the AdMob SDK forum asking for help.

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  • 9 Nov, 2020

  Welcome to the forums! I'm afraid this is not an appropriate use of a forum thread though - it should be for discussion of a specific topic. If you want a general, real-time chat, use some instant messaging software instead.

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  • 9 Nov, 2020
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  The functions feature was completely redesigned in Construct 3 over a year ago, making a wide range of highly requested improvements, and also significantly improving performance. See the blog posts Construct 3's new redesigned functions and More about Construct's new functions.

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  • 9 Nov, 2020
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  See the Taking screenshots example.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 9 Nov, 2020
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  > That sounds like a bug that was already fixed.

  Hey Ashley, any idea when we can expect the slow saving bug fix?

  As the linked bug indicates, that was already fixed in r222.