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  • 15 Feb, 2019
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  I checked and both runtimes do only call that method after startGameAsync() has resolved.

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  Form controls float above the canvas, so nothing else can be layered on top of them.

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  Changing the FPS is currently not supported. However you can change the timescale and check everything changes speed accordingly - e.g. set a timescale to 0 and everything using dt will stop; anything not using dt will carry on.

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  • 15 Feb, 2019
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  Change the time scale.

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  • 15 Feb, 2019
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  See the note about CPUUtilisation in the manual:

  This measurement can be unreliable, especially when the system is largely idle. Most modern devices deliberately slow down the CPU if not fully loaded in order to save power. This means work takes longer to get done, and this expression will misleadingly return a higher measurement, since it's based on timing how long the work takes. It will generally only be reliable in the device's maximum performance mode, i.e. under full load.

  It is probably increasing the CPU power during touches to deal with your inputs, then throttling it back down again when you're not touching. This will affect the timer-based CPU measurement that Construct takes.

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  • 15 Feb, 2019
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  The plugin calls FBInstant.getEntryPointData() on startup and returns that from the expression. I don't know why that wouldn't work, it seems to work for everything else. Maybe it's not set until later on? I didn't know that was possible. Try checking with Facebook about exactly when it's set, it might be an Instant Games bug.

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  • 14 Feb, 2019
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  Are you sure you got this the right way round? There is a known issue on iOS 11 that prevents WebM playback (due to a bug in Safari), but it's fixed in iOS 12 so should work fine. If you can't get WebM to play on iOS 12, please file a bug following all the guidelines.

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  • 14 Feb, 2019
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  Maybe we should file dev tools bugs on crbug.com to get tools to track that.

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  • 14 Feb, 2019
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  Dropbox's website should have help on that.

  The simplest way for attaching projects for bug reports though is to rename the .c3p to .zip and drag and drop the file in to the report.

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  • 14 Feb, 2019
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  The translation reviewer was also a Russian native speaker. As I said before, if you think there are improvements that need to be made, POEditor is still open for contributions.

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  • 14 Feb, 2019
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  Hmm... maybe GC heuristics work differently in a worker?

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  • 14 Feb, 2019
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  Facebook have advised me the Instant Games bug is now fixed, and I verified it with a quick test. So this should be solved now.

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  See the bug report guidelines. They include advice on how to reduce your project to a minimal example.

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  I'd add that when the translation was originally released, it was reviewed by a professional translator who described it as "good".

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  • 13 Feb, 2019
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  I'd have thought there would be little CPU performance difference (it's the same JavaScript code after all), and either none or a small improvement on GPU performance (since it can issue frames off the main thread). So I wouldn't expect any huge changes - the main benefit is it runs off the main thread so browser work on the main thread won't jank the game.

  Still it's worth verifying this with performance measurements - and for those, just use the same ones as ever, there's nothing special about performance measurement in worker mode. E.g. measure the FPS, CPU utilisation, GPU utilisation, etc.